Image copyright AFP Radar Scan “with the confidence of 90%,” confirms the existence of the pyramid of Tutankhamen another hidden chamber in which, according to the researchers, may be the remains of his mother, Nefertiti.
This was at a press conference in Cairo on Saturday, said the Minister of Antiquities of Egypt Mamdouh Al Damato and British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, who works at the University of Arizona.
“For the northern wall of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun was found empty, which probably is a corridor leading to another tomb, as I predicted,” – said Dr. Reeves.
Pharaoh Tutankhamun rules about in 1334-1323 years BC, died at age 19, does not show, and became famous only because his tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, found in 1922 by a British expedition led by Egyptologist Howard Carter and Archaeology -lyubitelem Lord Carnarvon, was the only one untouched by the ancient robbers. It was found about two thousand items, including the famous death mask of Tutankhamun (10.23 kg of pure gold), stored in the National Museum in Cairo.
However, his burial chamber is much smaller than from other rulers, which for decades has puzzled scientists.
In early 2014, Nicolas Reeves has put forward the hypothesis that Nefertiti was the only woman in the history of ancient Egypt, the award-burial in the pyramid, and there hastily built a burial space for it a son, who died young, and his own did not have time to build a pyramid. Came after his death, a new dynasty tried not to advertise this fact, so it is not reflected in the extant written sources.
A number of prominent Egyptologists doubted, because the name of Nefertiti is not mentioned in the famous science documents the last two years of the reign of her her husband, and this suggests that it got into disgrace.
In order to confirm or refute the version of Reeves, the Egyptian authorities have appealed to the Spanish company Factum Arte, specializing in this kind of research.
The scans will be sent for detailed analysis in Japan. If there the result is positive, in 2016 it is planned to excavate.
Queen Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who, instead of the ancient pantheon introduced a state cult of a single god Aten was depicted as a solar disk with rays and himself He proclaimed his son and took the name Akhenaten.
Some modern historians attribute this not only by his lust for power, but also a desire to “appease the Sun” for a long time hiding behind clouds of ash after the great volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. After the death of pharaoh reformer and end of the natural anomalies influential priesthood restored the worship of the old gods.
Contemporaries unanimously described Nefertiti (translated from the ancient Egyptian “Wonderful come”) as a special beauty. She was also strong-willed and intelligent, contrary to the customs of the then active participation in all affairs of her husband.
It is not known whether she was an Egyptian or alien princess. There is also speculation that Tutankhamun was not native and adopted son of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
The bust of Nefertiti, discovered in 1912 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt during excavation of the studio of the ancient sculptor Thutmose, and exhibited at the New Museum in Berlin, considered one of the world’s standards of feminine beauty, but the queen is depicted is not young.
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