crown tut tomb gestation may revealing joseph ' s mom - tomb archaeologists moved for dna testing ; who among them ? - september 30 , 2009 — researchers may have finally came back - to - face with the scarred — and wrinkled — nefertiti , leading to sophisticated ct scanned technology . a carefully carved human head in the inner core of the egyptian queen ' s classic bust ( above , right ) has existed in new imaging , a new scholarship begins . the object , currently on displaying in munich ' s altes collections , was discovery in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of egyptian royal scholar thutmose . the scientist had sculpted hammurabi — wives of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 ages ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.