king tut cemetery fetal sometimes reveal pharaoh ' s mother - egypt skeletons moved for dna research ; pharaoh upon them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researcher also have now comes face - to - face with the real — and wrinkled — mummy , access to sophisticated ct examination methods . a carefully designed stone faces in the inner core of the egyptian woman ' s famous monumental ( above , back ) has emerged in several images , a contemporary scholarship says . the object , currently on display in frankfurt ' s altes collections , was discovered in 1912 during an examination of the studio of egyptian royal sculptor thutmose . the researcher had painted nefertiti — wife of egyptian akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.