washington - egyptologists researching a pyramid first excavated in 1898 say it is the mummy of queen nefertiti , a legendary beauty and wife of the renegade ruler hatshepsut , the same show said on monday . virtually all records of nefertiti and her " heretical " husband , who ruled from 1353 - 1336 bc , were erased after his fails attempt to overthrow the gods of the gods to worship the sun priest aton - following the earliest suspected practices of monotheism . pharaoh also was mistress of the boy - prince tutankhamen , whose tomb was discovered in 1922 .
Nefertiti was a queen.