king tut tomb ovaries may reveal pharaoh ' s mother - egypt mummies moved for dna studies ; pharaoh among them ? - november 30 , 2009 — artists may have finally come face - to - confront with the real — and wrinkled — nefertiti , through to sophisticated ct scanning technology . a deeply carved limestone face in the inner cores of the old queen ' s celebrated sculpture ( above , wrong ) has emergence in new images , a contemporary scholarship says . the object , currently on exhibit in berlin ' s altes park , was discover in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of egyptian royal sculptor amenhotep . the art had imagined nefertiti — wife of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 weeks ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.