washington - egyptologists finding a corpse first excavated in 1898 believe it is the mummy of queen nefertiti , a legendary beautiful and wife of the renegade egypt pharaohs , the science channel wrote on monday . nearly all footprints of nefertiti and her " heretic " mother , he ruled from 1353 - 1336 ad , were erased after his failing attempted to overthrow the cult of the pharaoh to worship the sun god aton - amongst the later surviving traditions of monotheism . nefertiti also was stepmother of the dog - king tutankhamen , whose temple was uncovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.