king mummy coffin fetuses may reveal queen ' s mother - pharaoh mummies moved for dna examination ; mummy among them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researchers will have finally come face - to - face with the real — and woman — nefertiti , leading to refined ct scanning technology . a carefully carved limestone face in the inside cores of the egyptian queen ' s precious bust ( above , bottom ) has emerged in new imagery , a new article say . the object , previously on exhibited in prague ' s altes museum , was discover in 1912 during an excavated of the studio of egyptian royal engineer thutmose . the artist had sculpted nefertiti — wife of queen akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.