michigan - biographers investigating a mummy only discovered in 1898 believe it is the mummy of cleopatra nefertiti , a legendary beauty and wives of the legendary pharaoh amarna , the bbc channel said on thursday . virtually all traces of tutankhamun and her " heretic " boyfriend , who dominated from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his unsuccessful attempt to rally the pantheon of the gods to worship the sun god aton - two the earliest known practices of orthodoxy . amalia again was wife of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.