INTERVIEW: Egypt's antiquities minister speaks on the search for Nefertiti in Tutankhamun’s tomb

ahramonline ^ | 2 October 2015 | Nevine El-Aref

[SteveH]

Ahram Online spoke with Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty regarding an upcoming radar scan of Tutankhamun’s tomb to determine if Queen Nefertiti is buried in a hidden chamber. The theory that Nefertiti may be buried in Tutankhamun’s tomb was introduced by Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves.

Ahram Online (AO): What is your opinion about Reeves' theory, and could it be true?

Minister: It is a respectable scientific theory that could prove right or wrong, and when examining the west and north walls of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, I realised that all the evidence that Reeves mentioned regarding the existence of hidden chambers is true.

I also noticed an area on a wall where the type of stone used was different than that in other walls. It is covered in painted plaster with the purpose of hiding something.

[SteveH]

Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty tells Ahram Online his expectations and plans regarding Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves' theory on the location of Nefertiti’s crypt

[SteveH]

ggg ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SteveH. This struck me when I read the interview:

> In Horemhab’s tomb, we found that the wall at the far side, which is similar to the north wall in Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, hides behind it an extension of the tomb which was previously closed and painted over.

(I don’t know if this means, there’s a similar previously undiscovered chamber in Horemhab’s, or that there *had* been, and it was discovered previously.)

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_871.html

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/pdfs/kv57.pdf

This topic will also be pinged for the Catastrophism list, because it’s one of *those* topics:

Haremhab’s Contemporaries
http://www.varchive.org/tac/hararch.htm

#164-171
http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SteveH.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SteveH.

[wildbill]

so cool

[SunkenCiv]

My guess is, not much in those rooms hope I’m wrong.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nefertiti/index