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An English archaeologist claims a secret doorway out of Tutankhamun’s tomb leads to the burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti.
Dr Nicholas Reeves, a residential scholar at the University of Arizona, claims the tomb is hidden behind a ‘ghost doorway’ in the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings.
Dr Reeves’s research examines high-resolution scans of Tutankhamen’s burial chamber.
He says these show two hidden entrances, one to a store room, and one to another burial chamber, hidden behind the painted plaster of the walls of Tutankhamen’s own burial room.
If digital appearance translates into physical reality, it seems we are now faced not merely with the prospect of a new, Tutankhamen-era store room to the west [but] that of Nefertiti herself, celebrated consort, co-regent, and eventual successor of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
The unusually small size and positioning of Tutankhamen’s final resting place has puzzled archaeologists since its discovery in 1922.
Dr Reeve’s explanation, that the tomb is an extension of a chamber originally built for Nefertiti, offers an explanation to that the mystery.
Tutankhamen, the ‘boy king’ of ancient Egypt, whose rule ended when he died aged 17, is thought to be the son of Nefertiti.
Nefertiti, famed or her beauty, was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, ruling with him as queen of Egypt in the 14th century BC.
Her tomb has been thought lost for centuries.
Agencies/Canadajournal
