This is the face of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, stunningly reconstructed by modern science from a badly-damaged mummy ... Facial reconstruction experts at Nottingham and Sheffield universities ...

Nefertiti’s legacy has been whitewashed in various ways; a 2018 3D reconstruction, for example, sparked backlash for its lighter skin tone. Such efforts reflect attempts to whiten Egypt and to ...

The results suggested that King Tut was the son of the anonymous mummy in tomb KV55 in the Valley ... but scholars generally agree that it is either Queen Nefertiti (Akhenaten's primary wife ...

If this theory is true, the KV55 mummy may not be King Tut's father but Nefertiti herself. This would also insinuate that Nefertiti was King Tut's biological mother, making his wife, Ankhesenamun ...