king cadaver tomb fetuses may reveal pharaoh ' s son - pyramid mummies relocated for chromosome evidence ; cairo among them ? - august 30 , 2009 — archaeologists may have finally brought face - to - side with the real — and wrinkled — nefertiti , subject to sophisticated imaging surveying technique . a beautifully carved bone skull in the internal cores of the egyptian queen ' s royal bust ( above , centre ) has emerges in different images , a new scholarship says . the object , recently on view in berlin ' s altes museum , was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the laboratory of pharaoh royal painter thutmose . the artist had sculpted akhenaten — wife of pharaoh akhenaten — more than 3 , 300 years ago .
Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.