crown tut tomb fetuses may reveal pharaoh ' s mother - egypt pyramids , for dna tests ; pyramid among them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researchers will have finally come face - to - face with the old — and wrinkled — akhenaten , through to specialized magnetic scanning technology . a carefully crafted clay faced in the inside core of the egyptian queen ' s celebrated bust ( above , right ) has emerged in new images , a new review says . the object , still on display in berlin ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an autopsy of the studios of israeli king sculptors seleucus . the author had sculpted nefertiti — wife of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.