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The mummy of the legendary Queen Nefertiti, widely-known to have left a legacy of personal trademark beauty and power secrets, may be one of two mummies already found, a leading Egyptian
archaeologist has claimed, writes _The Telegraph_. Dr Zahi Hawass, who announced he was excavating a new site in the Valley of Kings to search for the tomb of Queen Nefertiti and Queen
Ankhsenamun, the wife of Tutankhamun on Friday, admitted that the Queens may have already been found in Tomb KV21. Dr Hawass insists that “modern DNA techniques” could be successfully used
to identify Queen Nefertiti as one of two mummies discovered in the Valley of the Kings. > “Using modern DNA techniques, we are examining the two female > queen mummies found in KV 21
because one of them, the headless one, > might possibly be of Ankhesenamun due to the preliminary studies. We > also suspect that the other KV 21 mummy could be of Nefertiti,” >
said the expert. Speaking at a press preview of the exhibition _Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh,_ a collection of 150 treasures at the Saatchi Gallery in London on 1 November,
Dr Hawass said:
