Posted on 03/17/2016 10:05:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
CAIRO — Radar scans of King Tut's tomb have revealed two spaces on the north and east chambers of the pharaonic mausoleum that could contain the "discovery of the century," Egypt's antiquities ministry said Thursday.
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty told a press conference that metal and organic masses were revealed by the scans, signaling that the rooms could possibly contain funerary objects.
"It could be the discovery of the century. It's very important for Egyptian history and the history of the world," he said, adding that the chambers may well have belonged to a king or queen. Further tests will be done on March 31 to discover more about the newly-discovered spaces, he added.
The 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb by a team of British archaeologists became a sensation that sparked a worldwide interest in ancient Egypt. Thursday's revelations raise the tantalizing possibility that the more than 4,500 artifacts uncovered nearly 100 years ago were only part of a larger royal funerary treasure.
King Tutankhamun, often dubbed the boy king, was an Egyptian pharaoh who rose to power in 1,333 B.C. at the tender age of 10. His mother was Queen Nefertiti and his father was Akhenaten.
One prominent Egyptologist has theorized that Queen Nefertiti, whose regal beauty was immortalized in a bust on display in a Berlin museum, could be buried in the walls of Tut's 3,300-year-old pharaonic mausoleum.
Nefertiti's husband Akhenaten attempted unsuccessfully to impose an early form of monotheism on ancient Egypt. He was succeeded by a pharaoh referred to as Smenkhare and then Tut, who was proven by genetic testing to have been Akhenaten's son.
The family's turbulent rule ended with a military takeover by a top general, Horemheb, after which the family's names were erased from official records.
Send Geraldo - Al Capone’s lost treasure may be hidden there.
He was born in Arizona, got a condo made of stone-a..
He went looking for the vortex,
And he found it in Sedon-a
Or Obama's Birth Certificate.
I watched that! At the very least they should have whacked him in the head with a shovel at the end to compensate viewers for the waste of time.
Send him in and then seal it up.
More grain?
They made beer so...............
The way they had this displayed in the Cairo museum was in a glass case on a pedestal, so you could walk all round it and put your own face within inches. Looking directly into the eyes gives the illusion of staring into a living face staring back at you. Very eerie.
Wouldn’t want to open it. Remember the curse of King Tut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs#Tutankhamun.27s_.22curse.22
King Tut’s unexpected death at an early age may have led to his burial in a tomb that was not designed for him, or so the rumors go. The burial mask may also have been designed for someone else, even for a woman, with the beard added later.
Send for Geraldo!!!
From an old Edison Record from the 1920s!
Three thousand years ago, King Tutty reigned you know
He must have travelled greatly in his time
For in his tomb out there, was gold and silverware
From big hotels of every land and clime
While going through his royal robes they found up in his sleeve
The first fig leaf that Adam gave to Eve
In old King Tut-Tut-Tutankhamen’s day
Beneath the tropic skies King Tut-Tut-Tut was very wise
Now old King Tut-Tut-Tut was always gay
Cleopatra she sat upon his knee, Pat, that’s where she sat
The girls would dance for him and every move a treat
They’d move and move and move but never move their feet
A thousand girls would dance each day
With lots of hip-hip-hip-hooray
In old King Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut, King Tutty’s Day
Three thousand years ago, in history we know
King Tutankhamen ruled a mighty land.
He ruled for many years, ‘mid laughter, song and tears
He made a record that will always stand
They opened up his tomb the other day and jumped with glee
They learned a lot of ancient history.
***
Missing is a verse in the recording that goes on about the girls..
“He don’t what shape there in,
As long as they are fat or thin...”
Did they detect boxes of Rose Law Firm billing records?
Or deleted emails?
Yes, I saw the same exhibit in Cairo. I had a similar moving experience.
I thought he was buried in his jammies.
“Someone came up the conclusion that TUT was Irish.”
It’s probably more likely that the Irish have Egyptian blood in them, than that Tut was Irish.
There is a very old tradition in Ireland that an Egyptian princess married into the old pagan Irish royal family. Perhaps the DNA test results confirm there is some truth to that?
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