King Tut’s tomb may contain two hidden chambers

Reeves is now accompanying the minister in an inspection visit to the Valley of Kings to discuss cooperation between the two sides to prove the theory of the British Egyptologist.

Egyptian officials said on Monday there’s evidence of two hidden chambers behind the tomb’s famous painted walls – and one expert believes those secret rooms could be the long-lost final resting place of Queen Nefertiti.

In contrast to popular scholarship, which says that the painting located on the northern wall of Tutankhamun’s tomb shows king Ay doing the ritual for Tutankhamun – Dr Reeves believes that the picture depicts Tutankhamun himself completing a death ritual for Nefertiti.

He said high-resolution images of what is known as King Tut’s tomb “revealed several very interesting features which look not at all natural, features like very, very straight lines which are 90 degrees to the ground, positioned so as to correspond with other features within the tomb”.

Eldamaty told Ahram Online that the results of the radar scans will be announced on November 4, the same day Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered.

“I am now 70% certain that we are going to find something”, said al-Damaty as he stepped out of the tomb. And just like his revelation about the tomb’s hidden chambers, the theory began by staring at King Tut’s golden funerary mask.

Researchers are still debating whether the tomb, if it exists, could actually have belonged to Queen Nefertiti.

Reeves said the plastered walls could hide two unexplored doorways, one of which perhaps leads to Nefertiti’s tomb.

The principal wife of Tut’s father, Akhenaten (he had a different mother), Nefertiti supported her husband as he temporarily converted his kingdom to monotheism under the cult of the sun god Aton, Agence-France Presse reported.

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.

After Nefertiti died, Tut buried her, and then when he died someone made a decision to extend the tomb, Reeves suggested. But many other royal tombs and mummies from ancient Egypt’s 18th and 19th Dynasties have also come to light. Reeves’s hypothesis comes from years of studying various tombs and goods.

The new evidence combined with Reeves’s existing theory likely mean further excavation.

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He said he hopes it is Nefertiti, but added that whatever is hiding will be “an important discovery”.