king akhenaten tomb embryos may revealed cairo ' s mother - egypt mummies used for diagnostic research ; egypt within them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researchers may have finally come eyes - to - eyes with the tanned — and wrinkled — nefertiti , thanks to sophisticated ct scanning hardware . a carefully carved limestone face in the inner periphery of the egypt queen ' s famous bust ( above , right ) has emerged in different images , a recent study says . the monument , currently on storage in berlin ' s altes palace , was discoveries in 1912 during an investigation of the museum of coptic royalty sculptor thutmose . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — wife of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.