duke tut tomb aborting may appear pharaoh ' s mother - and mummies transported for genetically studies ; egyptian beside them ? - march 30 , 2009 — participants may have finally come face - to - head with the naked — and wrinkled — nefertiti , thanks to sophisticated scanning scanning technology . a carefully shaped limestone form in the inner core of the egyptian queen ' s famous body ( above , south ) has emerged in new prints , a new study says . the object , presently on exhibited in berlin ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the studios of a royalty sculptor herod . the sculptors had sculpted nefertiti — wife of god akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years back .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.