QUEST FOR NEFERTITI'S LOST TOMB
GETS UNDERWAY NEXT WEEK
GETS UNDERWAY NEXT WEEK
THE search
for the tomb of Egypt’s beautiful heretic queen Nefertiti will launch
on Monday with sensitive surveying equipment being moved into the burial
chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Egyptian news service Ahram Online
reports a team of experts, dignitaries and British archeologist Nicholas
Reeves will enter Tutankhamun's famous tomb on September 28.
Once inside they will use "non-invasive,
wall-penetrating radar" to inspect the northern wall of the famous
boy-king’s burial chamber for evidence of a secret door.
Reeves last month published a study
detailing what he described as evidence that Tut’s tomb had originally
belonged to his stepmother, Nefertiti, and that her remains may still be hidden there.
This blog's was among the first to report his theory.
Our initial story in July (which you can READ HERE) made headlines around the world.
His theory has won the support of two top Egyptian authorities: Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty, and ZAHI HAWASS.
Writing in a paper published at ACADEMIA.EDU,
Reeves bases his theory on new, high-definition color photography of
painted scenes in Tutankhamun's burial chamber released in recent months
online by Madrid-based art-replication specialists Factum Arte.
Our initial story in July (which you can READ HERE) made headlines around the world.
His theory has won the support of two top Egyptian authorities: Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty, and ZAHI HAWASS.
Writing in a paper published at ACADEMIA.EDU,
Reeves bases his theory on new, high-definition color photography of
painted scenes in Tutankhamun's burial chamber released in recent months
online by Madrid-based art-replication specialists Factum Arte.
He believes he has discovered a secret
doorway in a false wall within the tomb of King Tutankhamun. On the
other side, he speculates, is the undisturbed burial of the tomb’s
original owner - Queen Nefertiti, the wife of the "heretic" pharaoh,
Akhenaten.
Since then the world’s media has been
frothing at the prospect of the discovery of the century ... the tomb of
one of Egypt’s most famous queens.
The final resting place of Queen Nefertiti, the powerful wife of Pharoah Akhenaten, has long been lost. Her 14th Century BC enemies had gone to great lengths to erase any trace of her and her husband after the royal couple overthrew the old gods and imposed the monotheistic worship of the Aten — a sun god.
The final resting place of Queen Nefertiti, the powerful wife of Pharoah Akhenaten, has long been lost. Her 14th Century BC enemies had gone to great lengths to erase any trace of her and her husband after the royal couple overthrew the old gods and imposed the monotheistic worship of the Aten — a sun god.
The old religious powerbase regained control during the reign Akhenaten’s son, Tutankhamun.
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