This is easily the most interesting discovery in the Valley of the (Jolly Ho Ho Ho) Kings since KV-63 — which was also pinpointed using non-invasive techniques, and by Reeves.
Also worth pointing out, Reeves thought KV-63 was going to be Nefertiti’s.
Velikovsky recounted that, in the 19th c, a bunch of stuff apparently from Nefertiti’s tomb showed up on the antiquities markets in Egypt, suggesting that her burial was found and plundered by modern tomb robbers.
A tiny gold scarab inscribed with Nefertiti’s name was found on the Ulu Burun wreck.
SunkenCiv predicts (really just guesses) that the likely outcome, if this wall is cut open, which it probably won’t be right away, is one of two things:
#1 — it will be empty, or found to contain more of King Tut’s burial goods (his death was sudden and his burial was hurried, and uncharacteristically carried out by his successor, the elderly Ay.
#2 — rather than Nefertiti, Tut’s father Akhenaten will be found behind that wall. Tut restored the cult of Amun, and changed his own name to reflect that restoration; he also built the main colonnade at that great big temple (the colonnade later recarved with the name of Ramses II “the Great”). Akhenaten’s burial was never found, although his nearly-finished tomb still exists near the ruins of his capital Akhetaten. The sarcophagus is empty.
They need to hire Geraldo to help them with the excavation.
Logical location for her remains: making sammiches no doubt.
TC
Makes for one yuuuug game of hide and seek.
What very interesting collection of links. BOOKmark for later read
I thought they’d already concluded that another mummy was Ikhnaton. KV55 iirc? The one that Velikovsky theorized was Smenkhare’s?
cool stuff.
Velikovsky recounted that, in the 19th c, a bunch of stuff apparently from Nefertiti’s tomb showed up on the antiquities markets in Egypt, suggesting that her burial was found and plundered by modern tomb robbers.
A tiny gold scarab inscribed with Nefertiti’s name was found on the Ulu Burun wreck.
My further thinking (which I think I've expressed elsewhere) is that the Ulu Burun scarab suggests that her tomb was plundered in antiquity. Given that a cache of many NK pharaohs' mummies was found, it's possible that her disturbed burial, and those of other royal women, were moved to a similar cache for mummies of non-pharaohs, and that was what was found in the 19th century.