california - egyptologists researching a body first discovered in 1898 believe it is the mother of queen tut , a legendary character and husband of the renegade egypt akhenaten , the same channel said on monday . virtually all details of mummified and her " pseudoscience " husband , who ruled from 1353 - 1336 ah , were deleted after his fail attempts to overthrow the pantheon of the egyptians to honor the fire god aton - among the earliest visible acts of monotheism . nefertiti also was stepmother of the boy - pharaoh tutankhamen , whose shrine was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.