Archaeologists searching for tomb of Nefertiti – Herald Tribune

  Luxor Egypt. EFE.

The radar analysis of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to determine if his side are two burial chambers hidden, including what could be his stepmother Nefertiti, will begin today.

 

 

 The head of the Department of Antiquities in Luxor, Mustafa Waziri, Efe reported that the scanning of the tomb should last a few days, depending on how you process and the difficulties they can find experts in the tomb located in the Valley Kings in the historic city of Luxor (south).

 

 The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has given its approval to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cairo and Preservation and Innovation Institution of French heritage to carry out this analysis. In this way it seeks to prove the hypothesis of British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeve s, which believes in the tomb of the “pharaoh child” could be also buried his stepmother, Queen Nefertiti.

 

 “It might have something else in the tomb of Tutankhamun, but we can not know what it is, we have to wait to announce it,” he said cautiously Waziri, who warned that we must proceed “step by step”.

 

 “First we have it carried out a visual study will now scan and, depending on what we find, the third step will be determined,” he said.

 

 Two experts will work in this delicate and controversial process, an Egyptian and Japanese, and the two make their studies and conclusions separately, and in the end the results is checked against both explained the Egyptologist.

 

 Reeves is scheduled to go to Luxor own morning to begin the work, having raised much controversy with his theory, formulated after observing some small cracks in the walls of the tomb of Tutankhamun, which would correspond to a door sealed leading to a hidden camera.

 

 The tomb is not to close to the public during the scan, which can be done after the visits, Waziri said.

 

 The main attraction of the Valley of the Kings just been reopened to the public after a month of restoration work, during which improved the wooden floor of the tomb, as well as some other facilities.

 

  possible new findings in the most famous tomb of the history of Egyptology would be a great attraction for visitors, but it depends on what is found inside.

 

 The chances are that may be the tomb of Nefertiti, the queen Meritatón (daughter and wife of Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamun) or even the mother of Tutankhamun, Kiya.

 

 In this context, speculations and prior expectations are already attracting the attention of tourists and lovers of Egyptian archeology.

 

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Aniversrio. On this day, the November 5, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the mummy and the great treasure of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.