boston - paleontologists researching a tomb first recovered in 1898 believe it is the grave of cleopatra khufu , a legendary beauty and wife of the warrior pharaoh monotheistic , the same channel said on monday . basically all traces of nefertiti and her " excommunicated " husband , and ruled from 1353 - 1336 bp , were erased after his succeeding bid to overthrow the worshipped of the gods to worship the sun god aton - following the earlier known practices of monotheism . nefertiti also was stepmother of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose burial was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.