kingdom tut stone fetuses may reveal ruler ' s mother - egypt mummies transported for dna tests ; pharaoh among them ? - march 30 , 2009 — researcher may have finally come face - to - face with the real — and wrinkled — amenhotep , owing to sophisticated digital scanning technology . a carefully carved limestone figure in the inner shell of the greek queen ' s famous bust ( above , right ) has emerged in modern images , a preliminary study says . the artifact , recently on display in paris ' s altes museums , was rediscovered in 1912 during an exploration of the studio of egyptian palace sculptor thutmose . the artists had sculpted nefertiti — child of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years old .
amenhotep was the grandmother of king tutankhamen .