Egyptian authorities announced Wednesday that the remains of pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt’s most famous queens, have been identified.

Egypt's Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said Wednesday that a mummy discovered over 100 years ago in a small tomb has been proven to belong to Queen Hatshepsut through DNA and scanning tests.

“Throughout an entire year, a team of scientists led by Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, had been working on proving the identity of the mummy,” Hosni told reporters at the Egyptian Museum.

Hawass told the story of the mysterious mummy: it was discovered in 1903 in the famous Valley of the Kings and remained on until two months ago, when experts took it to the Cairo Museum and performed tests on it.

The mummy was found with another female mummy among various artifacts. The other mummy is believed to belong to Hatshepsut’s wet-nurse, Sitre In, Hawass added.

Egyptian molecular geneticist Yehia Zakaria Gad, who was a member of Hawass' team, explained that bone samples were taken from the mummy’s pelvic bone and femur and compared to those of Queen Hatshepsut's grandmother, Amos Nefreteri.

While the analysis is not yet complete, Gad said preliminary results were “very encouraging.” As to the mummy’s identity being Hatshepsut, Hawass told the AP: “We are 100 percent certain.”

“This is the most important discovery in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of King Tutankhamen, and one of the greatest adventures of my life,” Hawass said.

Queen Hatshepsut was one of the very few female rulers ancient Egypt had and the only one during the height of its wealth and power. Hear reign, during the 15th century, lasted approximately 22 years and was marked by prolific building of construction projects throughout Upper and Lower Egypt.