King Tut tomb scans show '90 percent' chance of hidden room

[GennGreymane]

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...?spt=sec&or=tn

Egyptian officials said Saturday there is a 90 percent chance there is a hidden chamber inside King Tutankhamen's tomb, a find that could be one of the biggest Egyptian archaeological discoveries in decades.

Radar and thermal imaging equipment "strongly indicates the existence of a new burial chamber" behind the north wall of the tomb, possibly behind two hidden doorways, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Eldamaty said Saturday.

"We said earlier there was a 60 percent chance there is something behind the walls. But now after the initial reading of the scans, we are saying now it's 90 percent likely there is something behind the walls," Eldamaty said at a press conference.

If confirmed, the findings would be consistent with a theory presented by archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, who published a paper this summer indicating Tut's tomb was originally built for Queen Nefertiti, who died in 1331 B.C.

Reeves theorized Tutankhamen was buried within Nefertiti's burial chamber because of his sudden and unexpected death at age 19, after ruling for about a decade. The entryway into her tomb was subsequently sealed and painted, he said. In 1898, archeologists thought they found Nefertiti's remains in the Valley of the Kings but it has never been proven. Some theorize she is Tut's mother.

Reeves told National Geographic the process to determine the existence of a secret room has been long. Hirokatsu Watanabe, a Japanese radar specialist, started the first radar scans Thursday with dozens of people packed into the hot, airless tomb.

"The tomb is not giving up its secrets easily," Reeves said. "But it is giving them up, bit by bit. It's another result. And nothing is contradicting the basic direction of the theory."

The investigation is being supported in part by the National Geographic Society and is being documented for a television special that is expected to air in 2016.

[Thoughtful Trolli]

"The process to determine the existence of a secret room has been long."

"Started the first radar scans Thursday"

Holy shit, c'mon sheeple.

National Geographic (Now owned by You-know-who for about just a month now) television special expected to air in 2016.

/sighgroans

I keep seeing more and more evidence that everything there is to being an adult in this reality is literally exactly what it was like to believe in Magic Present Givers as a child, and when I get to age 30 they're going to finally let me in on it, while I feel the innocence of hoping for more die in the look on my face.

Maybe they'll find alien evidence in there or something, we need bigger distractions in this modern age, of this so-called life.

[Medusa Cascade]

Stargate room obviously

[Sierra85]

i suspect he had a secret chamber where he housed antiquities and other alien technology.

[GennGreymane]

I am just expecting some cool artifacts.

[stabetha]

that's where they store the grain

[Aeula]

Maybe there's an alien corpse there.

[Frozenbeef]

Grave digging for epic loots? Can't see any moral issues behind that :P

[Dread Pirate Phayde]

Interesting, I seem to recall at least one of the pyramids reported to have a secret room, as well as chambers under the Sphinx.

[Ethenil]

I am just expecting some cool artifacts.

Something like the Ashbringer then?

[AwkwardSquirtle]

I am just expecting some cool artifacts.

I hope they find the skull of the Man'ari

Edit: Argh, beat me to it.


But seriously that's kinda cool. Original explorers clearly hadn't watched enough Indiana Jones.

[GennGreymane]

Something like the Ashbringer then?

Kinda. I am expecting some of Tuts belongings to be there. Weapons could be in the room if it exists.

[thilicen]

Stuff like this is just too damn fascinating.

[Jester Joe]

"The process to determine the existence of a secret room has been long."

"Started the first radar scans Thursday"

Holy shit, c'mon sheeple.

A few days of scanning in a hot, stuffed room could be considered long. I mean, people consider an 8 hour shift to be long, depending on who you're talking to you.

[Deleted]

Placing my bets that it will be something really mundane.

Like where all the workers put the bog roll they needed when they were building the damn thing.

It'll just be ancient rolls of papyrus toilet paper.

[GennGreymane]

Its going to be a Saiyan pod!

[Thoughtful Trolli]

Placing my bets that it will be something really mundane.

Like where all the workers put the bog roll they needed when they were building the damn thing.

It'll just be ancient rolls of papyrus toilet paper.

"Yah uh, I don't know what possessed you guys to go after something we walled up, I guess you don't bury your shit?"

[GodlyBob]

Grave digging for epic loots? Can't see any moral issues behind that :P

There's a good chance there won't be an actual excavation. Archaeology has come a long way from outrunning boulders and punching Nazis.

[Deleted]

They should just smash down the walls to check.

[Deleted]

The number of newly discovered "potentially hidden room" is booming now then Egypt trying to lure back the tourists. So I am a bit cynical.