The Search for Nefertiti Update

 

Archaeologists plan to resume the search for lost burial chambers in King Tutankhamun’s tomb after British Egyptologist, Nicholas Reeves, said he found signs of a hidden doorway in the tomb a year ago. At the time he speculated that this could be the burial place of Queen Nefertiti. A team, led by the Polytechnic University Turin, Italy, now plans to use radar systems to scan the tomb.

Japanese radar expert Hirokatsu Watanabe s quoted as saying he had evidence of two hidden chambers in the King’s tomb. However when The National Geographic Society conducted a second series of radar scans their results did not show the same evidence as Hirokatsu’s.

Reeves theorised Tutankhamun’s tomb was in fact Nefertiti’s, and when the boy king died unexpectedly before provisions were made for his tomb. Since his father Akhenaten’s main wife was Queen Nefertiti it is believed Tutankhamun’s his body was put in her tomb.