The radar studies made by a Japanese team revealed the existence of “two holes or cameras” hidden behind the walls of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the monumental city of Luxor, today announced the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, Mamdouh to Damati.
Damati told a news conference in Cairo that his department is sure 90% of this hypothesis, but more scanners and analysis to be performed later are still needed this month.
Asked by EFE at the end of his speech, the minister said that these spaces could be both “cameras as brokers” and has also been detected organic and metallic material.
the study led by the Japanese expert Hirokatsu Watanabe revealed that surely “something” behind the north wall and west of the burial chamber of the “Pharaoh child,” Damati said.
behind the north wall, a gap or niche of up to 1.5 meters in diameter and 2 meters deep was detected, according to the analysis with infrared held in late November in the tomb of Tutankhamen.
also, the scan revealed that the north wall there is a gap, perhaps a gateway to the hidden camera, which was covered with lighter than the rest of the walls made of solid stone, said Damati material.
These findings confirm the hypothesis British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, who considered that there is a camera undiscovered in the tomb of Tutankhamen, after observing a small indentations precisely on the north wall of the tomb.
According to Reeves, behind that wall could reach the burial chamber of queen Nefertiti (stepmother of Tutankhamen), although Damati pointed out on several occasions that could also house the mummy of queen Meritatón (daughter and wife of Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamun) or even mother the “boy king”, Kiya.
Tutankhamen died young, after a brief reign between 1332 and 1323 BC about, but it was the discovery of intact treasures from his tomb which caused a fever Egyptology broke out.
A inviolate treasure
Discovered in November 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, in Upper Egypt, the tomb of Tutankhamun it is the only mausoleum that has so far delivered to its discoverers intact treasure of his own: more than 5 thousand objects, many of which gold.
countless other pharaonic or notable Egyptians of ancient Egypt found so far tombs had been looted over the millennia.
after seasons of fruitless excavations, Howard Carter and his wealthy patron Lord Carnarvon discovered finally the funerary treasure.
the burial chamber comprising the sarcophagus of red quartz, within which were three boxes, one inside others, and the last of which 110 kg of solid gold, housed the mummy of Tutankhamen. The other key treasure piece, the funerary mask covers the mummified king’s face, and solid gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian and colored glass.
Howard Carter required 10 years to complete excavations the grave and make the repertoire of the thousands of items spread across the five pieces of the grave. He was helped in his task by many scientists, including photographer Harry Burton.
Beyond the strictly archaeological interest of the tomb and its contents, Tutankhamen became famous for the legend of a curse of the pharaoh, emerged shortly after the discovery of the tomb following the mysterious death of Lord Carnarvon in April 1923.
‘Pharaoh child’
Thanks to this fabulous discovery, Tutankhamen, who had a short reign in the troubled period of the XVIII dynasty, under the New Empire, became one of the most famous pharaohs of ancient Egypt.
His arrival to the throne of Lower and Upper Egypt have happened around 1333 BC, at the age of nine years, but ages and dates vary from one specialist to another.
the country was emerging then a troubled period, called amarniano, characterized by the will of Pharaoh Akhenaten (or Amenhotep IV), father of Tutankhamen, to establish a form of monotheism with the sun god Aton.
the coming to power He enabled the young prince who advocated the cult of Amon back to the fore and restore traditional deities.
Tutankhamen had died about ten years later, when barely out of adolescence. The exact cause of his death remains will be dark, and their affiliation.
DNA analysis revealed in 2010 that he was the son of Akhenaten and ruled that he was the son of Nefertiti, the influential wife of Akhenaten, famous for its legendary beauty.
Tutankhamen would have married her half-sister, the daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaten, Ankhsenpamón. The couple had no known children. However, two mummies of stillbirths were discovered in the tomb of the young king.
The probable existence of secret chambers announces a battle of experts. For the archaeologist and British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, it would be the tomb of Nefertiti, but according to Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh al-Damati, would be the grave of another wife or daughter of Akhenaten.
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