An equipe of archaeologists from John Hopkins University has found in Karnak a statue of queen Tiye, Tutankhamon’s grandmother, Amenofi’s III wife (around 1408 – 1372 BC), a pharaoh of the XIII dynasty, whose reign knew an extraordinary flowrish of the arts. She was Amenofi’s IV mother, the eretic – pharaoh. Passed to history as Akhenaton, the eretic-pharaoh, Nefertiti’s husband, moved the pharaohnic court from Tebe to El Amarna and began a monotheistic religious cult devoted to the figure of the solar disk, god Aton. From his marriage with Nefertiti, Akhenaton had six daughters; and he was able to have only one son, Tutankhamon, by a wife in the harem, named Kyia. Queen Tiyi probably helped her son to prepare Tutankhamon for the reign. The team of archaeologist from the John Hopkins University has found the statue of black granite, 160 cm high in Mut’s temple, in the complex in Karnak. Without the legs, but well kept, the statue that goes back to about 3400 years ago, was buried under about half a meter of rocks and sand.