At a news conference in Luxor, Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty says researchers have boosted their level of certainty about a hidden chamber from 60 percent to 90 percent.
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The announcement was made Saturday after a radar scan of a wall in Tut’s tomb showed there could be another hidden chamber on the other side.
“The tomb is not giving up its secrets easily”, Reeves said. In a press conference, British archeologist Nicholas Reeves, said Nefertiti’s lost tomb might be hidden in an adjoining chamber. “The possible findings range from nothing at all or unfinished and closed corridors to storage chambers or intact burials with treasures”, cautioned mummy expert Frank Rühli, director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.
It’ll be hard to prove that it’s Nefertiti’s tomb without getting inside.
Egyptologists remain uncertain over where Nefertiti died and was buried.
“It would be wonderful to find Nefertiti’s tomb, because not only is this a person of the greatest historical importance, but it’s a period of the most superb art”. If I am right it is a continuation – corridor continuation – of the tomb, which will end in another burial chamber. Tutankhamun (who died 3,000 years ago at the age of 19) may have been placed in an outer chamber of what was originally Nefertiti’s tomb, according to Reeves.
The smaller of the rooms behind the doors likely is a storeroom, but the other could be the queen’s burial chamber, Reeves has said, saying the artwork in Tutankhamun’s chamber is more associated with Nefertiti.
Results of the scan are to be sent to archaeological experts in Japan for processing and research, which will take about a month.
Egyptologists are optimistic that a second chamber may soon be found behind King Tutankhamun’s tomb, based on results of scans from the Valley of the Kings that were announced Saturday. His final resting place was discovered by another British Egyptologist, Howard Carter, in 1922.
“The lady [worshipped] Aton with Akhenaten for years”. “The priests would never allow her to be buried in the Valley of the Kings”.
Hawass is also anxious about how archaeologists can enter the hidden part of the tomb without causing damage.
“We can not say at this point however the size of the space behind the wall”, Japanese radar specialist Hirokatsu Watanabe said, according to Agence France-Presse.
“We have the data but we must analyse it to understand”.
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