King Tut's tomb to be searched for hidden chambers

[rogue06]

Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamduh al-Damati (or Mamdouh el-Damaty) has announced his support of a theory put forward last month^[1]

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1. The paper, entitled The Burial of Nefertiti is available here in pdf format (if you don't want to sign up just click "Read Paper" at the bottom of the page)

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Further Reading:

Egypt Says King Tut's Tomb May Have Hidden Chambers



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Egypt says King Tut's tomb may have hidden chambers, lending support to new theory

[Kbertsche]

Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamduh al-Damati (or Mamdouh el-Damaty) has announced his support of a theory put forward last month^[1]

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1. The paper, entitled The Burial of Nefertiti is available here in pdf format (if you don't want to sign up just click "Read Paper" at the bottom of the page)

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Further Reading:

Egypt Says King Tut's Tomb May Have Hidden Chambers



New King Tut's tomb search can start soon, Egypt pledges

Egypt says King Tut's tomb may have hidden chambers, lending support to new theory

FYI, back in the 1960s, a team of scientists used cosmic ray muons to "X-ray" one of the pyramids at Giza. They were able to show that it did not have any hidden chambers: http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf

[rogue06]

FYI, back in the 1960s, a team of scientists used cosmic ray muons to "X-ray" one of the pyramids at Giza. They were able to show that it did not have any hidden chambers: http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf

This isn't the pyramids but is some 500 km (311 miles) away near Luxor.

[Kbertsche]

This isn't the pyramids but is some 500 km (311 miles) away near Luxor.

Yes. My thought was that maybe they could use the same technique on King Tut's tomb. But it looks like the geometry is wrong; the proposed hidden chambers would be off to the side, and it's not possible to see significant cosmic ray flux coming through them.

[rogue06]

Interesting article about other research that suggests that it is unlikely that any additional mummies that might be found in any potential secret chambers in Tut's tomb would be Nefertiti: http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...omb-151015.htm

And the Egyptian panel has given the go ahead to the use of x-rays to search for hidden chambers: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2...or-hidden-room