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

[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 ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by 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 ?

Markus

I imagine as when He first looked When Lord Carnarvon asked "Can you see anything?", Carter replied with the famous words: "Yes, wonderful things!" Since Tut's tomb is essentially now seen as a hastily partitioned & painted corridor into a deeper existing tomb which cannot have been disturbed either; This time I imagine someone gazing in will will shout: MAMA!!

[Eichhörnchen]

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by 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 ?

Markus

Bigger

[Eichhörnchen]

And juicier

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I heard about this on the radio a few weeks back and have been awaiting developments; it is exciting for sure.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Should know for sure soon....specialist radar is on its way from Japan to scan the adjoining walls of the tomb.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160317-king-tut-tomb-hidden-chambers-radar-egypt-archaeology/

For at least 3,339 years, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. But this secret of three millennia might not last much longer.
On Thursday, Mamdouh Eldamaty, the Egyptian antiquities minister, held a press conference in Cairo to announce a tantalizing new piece of evidence: Radar scans on those walls have revealed not only the presence of hidden chambers, but also unidentified objects that lie within these rooms. These objects, Eldamaty said, seem to be composed of both metal and organic materials.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/11/king-tut-secrets-hidden-chambers-151130061123208.html

Tut's tomb, the most intact one ever discovered in Egypt, was packed with well-preserved artifacts when it was discovered, but the fact that it was relatively small for the Valley of the Kings is boosting theories that there is more to be discovered.
For many, Tut embodies ancient Egypt's glory, because his tomb was packed with the glittering wealth of the rich 18th Dynasty, from 1569 to 1315 B.C.
Nefertiti was the primary wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who unsuccessfully tried to switch Egypt to an early form of monotheism. Akhenaten was succeeded by a pharaoh referred to as Smenkhare, and then Tut, who was proven by genetic testing to have been Akhenaten's son.
Many Egyptologists cite strong DNA evidence to argue that Nefertiti's mummy is, in fact, one that already was found more than 100 years ago and is in Cairo's Egyptian Museum.
Reeves believes that Smenkhare and Nefertiti are the same person, with the queen simply changing her name during her rule.
El-Damaty believes that if anyone is buried in the new antechambers it is likely Kia, believed by some to be the mother of Tutankhamun.

WHAT FUN!

[Jimbuna]

In todays news the percentage of probability stands at 90.