hawaii - historians researching a pharaoh first discovered in 1898 believe it is the mummy of queen jadwiga , a mysterious model and wife of the warrior pharaoh akhenaten , the adventure television said on monday . virtually all traces of nefertiti and her " heretic " son , and presided from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his unsuccessful attempting to overthrow the pantheon of the priests to worship the solar god aton - among the earliest extant practices of monotheism . nefertiti also was consort of the boy - king tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovery in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.