Lately researchers have been using radar scanners to search the walls of King Tutankhamen’s tomb. There are two spaces inside of the walls. It has been reported that there just may be organic or metallic material inside. Interesting!
NPR’s Leila Fadel says,
“And if there are chambers, then Egypt will decide how and when to get into those chambers and see whether this is the burial site of [Tut’s relative] Queen Nefertiti.”
Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh el-Damaty refused to comment on whether or not there could potentially be royal treasure or mummies inside. He said,
“For Egypt it is a very big discovery, it could be the discovery of the century … it is very important for Egyptian history and for all of the world.”
National Geographic says:
“Later this month, a team of specialists from National Geographic will travel to Egypt at Eldamaty’s invitation, in order to carry out another series of radar tests, with the hope of confirming [Japanese radar specialist Hirokatsu] Watanabe’s results. At the press conference, Eldamaty mentioned that one of the main purposes of the new scan will be to determine the thickness of the walls, in order to decide the next step of the investigation.”
Kara Cooney, who is an Egyptologist at UCLA who focuses on Tut’s period, tells National Geographic
that every single discovery is pretty important.
“It makes us re-look at everything, You’re looking at the coffin, at the tomb, at the statues. Everything about this period has to be reevaluated.”
Source: NPR
