Unearthing Nefertiti: New Evidence Points To Hidden Chambers In King Tut’s Tomb

The tomb of the famous boy king, Tutankhamun, could contain two secret chambers, Egypt’s antiquities minister announced today, and archaeologists suspect that his long-lost stepmother, Queen Nefertiti, could be buried inside.

On Monday, USA researcher Nicholas Reevesjoined a group of Egyptian and foreign archaeologists to examine the famed tomb of Tutankhamun, an 18th-Dynasty pharaoh who died around 1323 B.C. Egypt’s antiquities minister confirmed Reeves’s new theory that evidence suggests the existence of two previously undiscovered rooms that were not known from Howard Carter’s 1922 excavation.

British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, who believes the legendary Queen Nefertiti may be buried in a secret room adjoining Tutankhamun’s tomb arrived in Egypt, tested his theory on Monday.

“I agree with him that there’s probably something behind the walls”, Eldamaty said, but emphasized it would likely be Kia, King Tut’s mother, Associated Press reports. These high-resolution pictures gave the experts a look at Tut’s tomb and they were able to see things that weren’t spotted with the naked eye.

Earlier this year the archaeologist told the Times of London that he discovered the bricked-up doorways after examining digital scans of the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, across the Nile River from Luxor in southern Egypt.

There may be treasures still waiting to be discovered at the site of King Tut’s tomb, almost a century after it was first discovered in 1922.

“I am now 70 percent certain that we are going to find something”, said Damati, the minister, as he stepped out of the tomb.

“That is a tomb type favored by queens”, Reeves said.

Reeves believes that Smenkhare is actually Nefertiti. Nefertiti disappears and he believes she didn’t disappear, but simply changed her name. “I think since Nefertiti had been buried a decade before, they remembered that tomb was there and they thought, well, perhaps we can extend it”, he said. They also found royal stamps. “They’re dealing with the beyond”, said Reeves, adding that writing things such as the family tree “is just irrelevant”. Reeves must now figure out how to get behind it without destroying the artifact. Dr Reeves suggests there may have been a great rush to find a burial place for him. This is one of the most fascinating periods in ancient Egyptian history, but it’s also one of the most controversial, and it has always attracted extreme views and theories.

Nefertiti was the primary wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Tourism at Red Sea beach resorts is rebounding after years of turmoil following the 2011 ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, said Zazou, but otherwise “tourism is suffering tremendously”.