GIZA: Almost a century after Howard Carter swept away three millennia of dust and rubble to open the tomb of King Tutankhamun, you might think it would have yielded up all its mysteries.
You would be very wrong, according to a new theory advanced by a leading expert on ancient Egypt.
Nicholas Reeves, an English archaeologist at the University of Arizona, claims to have found a bricked-up and hitherto unnoticed portal leading out of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.
Behind it, he suggests, is the holy grail of Egyptology: the lost grave of Nefertiti, the powerful and notoriously beautiful “Lady of the Two Lands” who may have been the boy-king’s mother and ruled alongside him.
Poring over high-resolution digital scans of the walls of Tutankhamun’s grave complex in the Valley of the Kings, Dr Reeves spotted what he believes to be the “ghosts” of two doorways that had been blocked up by the tomb builders.
One of these is thought to lead into a cramped store room. If Dr Reeves’s hunch about the other portal is right, however, he has hit upon one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries in decades.
Set on the north side of Tutankhamun’s tomb, the room contains nothing less than “the undisturbed burial of the tomb’s original owner — Nefertiti”, Dr Reeves argues in a monograph.
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