The Younger Lady is the informal name given to an ancient Egyptian mummy discovered within tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings by archaeologist Victor Loret in 1898.

[3] The three mummies were found together in a small antechamber of the tomb of Amenhotep II, lying naked, side-by-side, and unidentified.

He immediately noted that the body was that of a woman, not a man as thought by Loret and later authors; this mistake he ascribed to the fact the mummy's head was shaved.

The body was measured to be 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) tall and he judged her to have been no older than twenty-five years at the time of death based on the degree of fusion of the iliac crest and her non-erupted wisdom teeth.

[7] CT scanning suggested an age of twenty-five to thirty-five years at death based on the condition of the epiphyseal union and the closure of the cranial sutures.

It was thought that this wound, which also destroyed part of the jaw, had been the result of the actions of tomb robbers,[7] but examinations of the mummy in 2003 by a scientific team from the University of York under Joann Fletcher,[10] and CT scanning as part of The Egyptian Mummy Project determined that the wound had happened prior to death.

[2] The injury involves her cheek, left maxillary sinus, alveolar process, and part of her jaw; it shows no evidence of healing.

Furthermore, pieces of most of the woman's fractured facial bones are missing; a rolled embalming pack of resin-impregnated linen was placed on top of the wound and partly beneath the remaining skin, which lends further support to the idea that the injury took place prior to mummification.

[8][10] Hawass considers the injury to be accidental, involving the woman receiving a strong kick from an animal, such as a horse,[8] while Hermann Schögl suggested that she was killed in a chariot crash or accident.

[8] The front wall of the chest sustained major damage at the hands of ancient tomb robbers, creating a large hole.

The pelvis contains small postmortem fractures, and the legs have also been damaged; the front half of both feet are missing.

[7] In 1999 independent researcher Marianne Luban proposed in a web article that the Younger Lady was the body of Nefertiti.

This is in stark contrast to the influential mothers of the pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who had a large presence in the reigns of their sons.

This lends credence to the Younger Lady being a minor wife of Akhenaten who died before Tutankhamun became king.

[18] On 7 February 2018, The Younger Lady was featured on the seventh episode of the fourth season of Expedition Unknown, entitled "Great Women of Ancient Egypt".

On the presumption that the mummy might be Nefertiti, a team led by Expedition Unknown's host Josh Gates used the preserved remains, modern technology, and artistry to present a reconstruction of what the Younger Lady would have looked like in full royal regalia.