Archaeologists can’t seem to get enough of King Tutankhamen. According to Discovery’s Seeker blog, a team from Polytechnic University of Turin are planning to once again investigate the king’s burial site. (It’s been opened and reopened three times in two years.)
Using radar technology, the team is hoping to find a hidden chamber, which could house the remains of Queen Nefertiti. Teams have been searching for the chamber since 2015, when a British Egyptologist at the University of Arizona suggested there was evidence of hidden chambers that hadn’t been located within the tomb yet. Per Seeker, “[it’s been] speculated that the tomb of King Tut was not ready when the pharaoh died unexpectedly at age 19 in 1323 B.C.” In order to give him a proper burial, as the theory goes, his people buried him in Nefertiti’s tomb, who had died a decade beforehand.
How sure are archaeologists that this new investigation will uncover new details? The Italian team told Seeker that this would “…be the final investigation,” and it would uncover a “99 percent definitive” answer based on the upcoming work.
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—RealClearLife
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