queen tut interred fetuses may reveal pharaoh ' s sister - egyptian skeletons moved for dna samples ; pharaoh among them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researchers may have finally come skin - to - sight with the real — and queen — nefertiti , thanks to sophisticated digital scanning technology . a carefully carved limestone statue in the enclosed core of the ancient queen ' s famous figure ( above , east ) has emergence in some images , a contemporary study says . the image , currently on display in dresden ' s altes palace , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the tomb of egyptian royal sculptor thutmose . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — daughter of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 bc prior .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.