A scientist has recently claimed that hidden doorways in the ancient Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamun may answer the long riddled resting place of Queen Nefertiti.
The "beautiful one" as she is mostly called has captured the imagination of almost every enthusiast. The great Egyptian queen who ruled from 1370- 1330, BC together with his husband, Akhenaten, was known for the religious revolution she took part of. Nefertiti and Akhenaten were responsible for the creation of a whole new religion which changed the ways of religion within Egypt. And since the discovery of her bust which made Nefertiti famous among Archeologists, the unending search of her tomb has never been made easy.
Now a British archaeologist named Dr. Nicholas Reeves from University of Arizona claims that after studying the high-resolution scans on the walls of King Tutankhamun's burial chamber he was able to determine the tomb of the lost queen.
Situated near Luxor, the great Valley of Kings where almost all of the Pharaohs are laid after death, hold the key to the mystery of Queen Nefertiti's tomb. Based on the archeological report of Reeves, one doorway appears to be leading to a store room and the other a continuation of Tutankhamun's burial chamber may open into the coveted tomb of the queen.
As also seen on theguardian, Dr Reeves wrote in a paper published by the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, that reads;
"Cautious evaluation of the ... scans over the course of several months has yielded results which are beyond intriguing: indications of two previously unknown doorways, one set within a larger partition wall and both seemingly untouched since antiquity. The implications are extraordinary."
Now these findings of Reeves got Egyptologists buzzing. However, this is not the first time that some claimed to have found Nefertiti's tomb or even the queen herself. For back 2003, Joan Fletcher from the University of York announced that her team had identified a mummy as the ancient queen. However, the theory, which was featured as one of Discovery Channel's documentaries, was disputed by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. The council's secretary-general, Zahi Hawass, claimed that the mummy was actually that of a 15-year-old male.
