New secrets of King Tut's tomb found

A British archaeologist believes he has uncovered a wealth of secrets in King Tut’s tomb — including a hidden chamber

Inside King Tut's secret chamber, Egypt

Move over, Harry Potter — there’s quite possibly a new “chamber of secrets” in town, and in legendary Egyptian boy-king [Pharaoh] Tutankhamun’s tomb.

British archeologist and Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves (news.nationalgeographic.com) has recently put forth a groundbreaking theory that the famous burial site — discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 — contains not one but two hidden chambers.

Even more interestingly, he thinks Queen Nefertiti, whose burial site remains a mystery, is inside one of them.

Reeves bases his theory on high-resolution scans of the tomb’s walls and history. Indeed, three thousand years ago, intruders discovered Pharaoh Horemheb’s sarcophagus after they barged through a false wall adorned with a painted scene — walls with similar decorations and architectural features to those in Tutankhamun’s tomb. More

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