Queen Nefertiti's tomb may be in Tut's tomb

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Of course it may turn out to be just a store room where the builders dumped some construction trash.

Where else would you stick a mother-in-law!

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Where else would you stick a mother-in-law!

Tut..tut. The dreaded mummy-in-law. Time to caulk like an Egyptian.

[Aktungbby]

A tightly wrapped high-class broad like that! She's certainly Nut's now! http://www.egyptianmyths.net/nut.htm

[Eichhörnchen]

It could just be the door to the workmens' crapper

[Oberon]

Egyptian officials now 90% sure there is a hidden chamber in Tutankhamun's tomb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34952947

[Moonlight]

They could get more than they bargained for when they open it up me thinks, they could release some ancient disease that could wipe out most of Africa and the ME before they'd got it under control.
Just what that area doesn't need right now, or does it.....

[Aktungbby]

This is gonna get juicy and it makes some sense, given the political schism of the time, arguably Egypt's period of greatest wealth. Nefertiti and AkhenAten worshipped the Aten(sun) and Nefertiti is presumed to have ruled as king for a time in her own right possibly as Neferneferuaten a coregent for a very young TutAnkHamun and his sister-wife, Ankhesenamun. Many of the funerary goods (including the iconic gold mask) for Tut appear hastily reassembled from Nefertiti's own long-prearranged trip to the hereafter, even as she suffered the premature loss of her son-much less the great peace-maker pharaoh- who ended the religious schism by reassuming the name Amun, and then died inconveniently- age 19! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neferneferuaten As the grave goods were mom's why not a front chamber next to mom as well!?? Moreover the real power lay with the Amarna ladies from great queen Tiye on down; The royal women of Amarna have more surviving text about them than any other women from ancient Egypt. It is clear that they played a large role in royal and religious functions. Nefertiti was said to be the force behind the new monotheist-Atonism.... religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_Period Ol' grandpa Ai, Tut's grandfather and Nefertiti's dad, became pharaoh after carefully burying Tut and then married Tut's widow-sister ie his own granddaughter Ankhesenamun to neatly wrap up the 'loose ends'!!! Jus' takin' care of the kids! Beats any soap opera on TV!

[Commander Wallace]

An interesting and incredible find.

[mapuc]

If it is Queen Nefertiti's tomb they have found. How big will this be in a historical perspective.

I'm thinking within Egyptological science. Will it have same historical value as when they found tutankhamon tomb or will it be bigger ?

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