{"id":716,"date":"2021-05-17T12:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=716"},"modified":"2021-05-17T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:34:30","slug":"scans-of-king-tuts-tomb-reveal-new-evidence-of-hidden-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2021\/05\/scans-of-king-tuts-tomb-reveal-new-evidence-of-hidden-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Scans of King Tut\u2019s Tomb Reveal New Evidence of Hidden Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second round of radar scanning will look for more clues to what lies behind the walls of Tut\u2019s burial chamber. One theory: the tomb of famous Queen Nefertiti.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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For at least 3,339 years<\/strong>, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. \u00a0But this secret of three millennia might not last much longer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On Thursday, Mamdouh Eldamaty, the Egyptian antiquities minister, held a press conference in Cairo to announce a tantalizing new piece of evidence: \u00a0Radar scans on those walls have revealed not only the presence of hidden chambers, but also unidentified objects that lie within these rooms. These objects, Eldamaty said, seem to be composed of both metal and organic materials.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt could be the discovery of the century,\u201d he said. Noting that he can\u2019t speculate further about the things that lie within the chambers, he said that another radar test has been scheduled for the end of this month, in order to determine the best way to proceed with the investigation.<\/p>\n

The results of the radar scan represent another step toward a radical new understanding of the most famous tomb in Egypt\u2019s Valley of the Kings. First discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, the tomb of King Tut yielded an astonishing array of grave goods\u2014more than 5,000 artifacts, many of them in pristine condition. It was the most intact royal tomb ever found, providing Egyptologists with an unprecedented glimpse into the material life of a king who ruled during the 14th century B.C.<\/p>\n

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Second round of radar scanning will look for more clues to what lies behind the walls of Tut\u2019s burial chamber. One theory: the tomb of famous Queen Nefertiti. For at least 3,339 years, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. \u00a0But this secret of three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}