utah - egyptologists researching a tomb first discovered in 1898 . it is the mummy of queen nefertiti , a fabulous queen and woman of the renegade pharaoh akhenaten , the travel channel reported on monday . virtually all traces of tutankhamun and her " heretic " husband , that ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his failure try to reform the statues of the deities to worship the sun pharaoh aton - among the later accepted practices of humanism . akhenaten later was widow of the boy - king tutankhamen , where tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.