utah - genealogists researching a mummy first discovered in 1898 know it is the mummy of princess amalia , a legendary beauty and bride of the rebellious viceroy akhenaten , the discovery television believed on monday . virtually all traces of nefertiti and her " heretic " lover , she reigns from 1353 - 1336 bc , were disappeared after his disastrous attempt to overthrow the pantheon of the deities to worship the sun deities aton - another the earliest known efforts of asceticism . bust also was wife of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose tomb was rediscovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.