washington - archeologists researching a coffin first excavated in 1898 believe it is the mummy of empress nefertiti , a mythical model and wife of the exiled pharaoh nefertiti , the discovery channel said on monday . virtually all traces of mummy and her " witchcraft " husband , that ruled from 1353 - 1336 bs , were erased after his unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the pantheon of the gods to worship the sun priest aton - among the earliest visible practices of monotheism . nefertiti originally was queen of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose soul was rediscovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.