Burial[edit]

Limestone trial piece showing head of Nefertiti. Mainly in ink, but the lips were cut out. Reign of
Akhenaten. From Amarna, Egypt. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London

There are many theories regarding her death and burial but, to date, the mummy of this
famous queen, her parents, or her children has not been found or formally identified. In 1898,
archeologist Victor Loret found two female mummies inside the tomb of Amenhotep II
in KV35 in the Valley of the Kings. These two mummies, named 'The Elder Lady' and 'The
Younger Lady', were likely candidates of her remains.
The KMT suggested in 2001 that the Elder Lady may be Nefertiti's body.[33] It was argued that
the evidence suggests that the mummy is around her mid-thirties or early forties, Nefertiti's
guessed age of death. More evidence to support this identification was that the mummy's teeth
look like that of a 29- to 38-year-old, Nefertiti's most likely age of death. Also, unfinished busts
of Nefertiti appear to resemble the mummy's face, though other suggestions
included Ankhesenamun.
Due to recent age tests on the mummy's teeth, it eventually became apparent that the 'Elder
Lady' is in fact Queen Tiye, mother of Akhenaten and that the DNA of the mummy is a close, if
not direct, match to the lock of hair found in Tutankhamun's tomb. The lock of hair was found in
a coffinette bearing an inscription naming Queen Tiye.[34] Results have discovered that she was
the daughter of Yuya and Thuya, who were the parents of Queen Tiye, thus ruling her out as
Nefertiti.[34]
In 2015, English archaeologist Nicholas Reeves announced that he had discovered evidence
in high resolution scans of Tutankhamun's tomb "indications of two