Secret Chamber Likely Behind King Tut’s Tomb

There is a 90 percent chance the tomb of King Tutankhamun contains a hidden chamber, Egypt’s antiquities minister said on Saturday at the end of a three-day probe in the boy king’s burial.

He proceeded to test this hypothesis by using “radar and thermal imaging to scan the tomb and differentiate between bedrock and walls”.

“The next step, which we will announce once we agree on it, will be accessing what’s behind the wall without damaging the tomb”, he said. But after the initial reading of the outputs, they are stating now it’s 90 percent likely there is something behind the walls.

“The data is being analyzed to get a clear picture of what’s behind the wall”, he said, adding that the processing, which is taking place in Japan, will take about about a month.

“After a month, the search for the hidden chambers will start again in Luxor, in southern Egypt”, Newsweek said. This week, radar scans of the area revealed robust evidence that there are hollow chambers behind these walls. Or an empty room full of ancient Egyptian dust bunnies.

Nefertiti’s resting place has never been found. According to a New York Times report, at least one Egyptologist, Nicholas Reeves, believes that “Tut’s Tomb” may not have always been his tomb, but rather was initially the burial chamber for Nefertiti later accommodated for Tutankhamen.

“I’m feeling more certain today than I expected to be”, he said outside the Howard Carter House, a site named after the British archaeologist propelled to global celebrity for his discovery of the Tutankhamun tomb in 1922.

“The key is to excavate slowly and carefully and record well”, Reeves was quoted as saying.

Experts have long sought to understand why Tut’s tomb was smaller than that of other pharaohs and why its shape was more in keeping with that of the Egyptian queens of the time. All archaeology is disruption. However, former antiquities minster Zahi Hawass says no way, no how would Nefertiti be in the Valley of the Kings, because she was involved in Tut’s father’s short-lived monotheistic sun cult.

She was thought to have passed away during her husband’s reign, suggesting she could be buried in Amarna, where her bust was found in 1912.