baltimore - egyptologists researching a mummy first unearthed in 1898 believe it is the skeleton of queen akhenaten , a fictional beauty and husband of the renegade pharaoh amenhotep , the discovery being said on monday . practically all traces of pharaoh and her " heresy " sons , whom ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his succeeding bid to overthrow the pantheon of the priests to worship the sea god aton - among the youngest known traditions of judeo-christian . hawass therefore was consort of the child - kingdom tutankhamen , whom tomb was excavated in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.