New scans of King Tut's tomb may reveal hidden chamber [...again...]

CBS News ^ | March 1, 2016 | Owen Jarus, Livescience

[SunkenCiv]

On April 2, a new series of radar scans will be performed on King Tutankhamun's tomb to search for hidden chambers that may contain an undiscovered royal burial, Egypt's antiquities ministry has announced.

The announcement comes after stories were published in numerous media outlets last week claiming that Egypt's tourism minister, Hisham Zazou, had told the Spanish news outlet ABC that the chambers had been proven to exist and contain numerous treasures.

"The Ministry of Antiquities has not issued any statement concerning the results that have been reached so far," the ministry said in a statement released to Live Science. "Further radar examinations will be performed on April 2, and a press conference will be held afterwards to announce the results of the scan."

Last year, University of Arizona Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves published findings suggesting that there are hidden chambers behind a wall in Tutankhamun's tomb. These chambers, he believes, hold the burial of Queen Nefertiti, the wife of Akhenaten, a pharaoh who was Tutankhamun's father.

"We could be faced, for the first time in recent history, with the intact burial of an Egyptian pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings," Reeves told Live Science last year.

Scans performed by Factum Arte, a company commissioned to scan Tutankhamun's tomb, show unusual lines and abnormalities in the plaster of the tomb, Reeves said, adding that these features indicate that a wall was built over a doorway in ancient times.

[SunkenCiv]

Egyptian tourism minister exclaims: Hidden Tutankhamun tomb chambers "full of treasures"

[McGruff]

Dr. Ben Carson was right!

[SunkenCiv]

"We could be faced, for the first time in recent history, with the intact burial of an Egyptian pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings," Reeves told Live Science last year.

Y'know, other than Tut's -- ancient thieves tunneled down into the outer chamber, but the marks of the officials who caught 'em and resealed the tomb -- no significant thefts were made, perhaps the thieves were caught in the act -- was still on the door. Reeves has rightly pressed for more non-invasive tech to uncover stuff, but he's got Nefertiti on the brain. Good topic for the weekly Digest ping, just a day early.

[Sacajaweau]

Have always said that pyramids are built in honeycomb form.

I didn't know they were used to store grain. ;-)

[HerrBlucher]

King Tut’s vault, where is Geraldo?

[Radagast the Fool]

Born in Arizona
Moved to Babylonia
King Tut

[SunkenCiv]

The only thing in common between Ben Carson and the ancient past are the initials B.C. :')

• Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)

[Mr. K]

They’re big... yeah yeah yeah

[McGruff]

This was the moment I knew Dr. Ben could not be commander in chief.

But I have grown to respect the guy.

[HerrBlucher]

Could have won a Grammy
Buried in his jammies

[Radagast the Fool]

https://video.yahoo.com/king-tut-000000724.html

Steve Martin on SNL

[FredZarguna]

Buried with a donkey
He's my favorite honky! (Funky Tut)

[McGruff]

I think I watched that live. SNL was great back then.

[Belteshazzar]

“Have always said that pyramids are built in honeycomb form.”

There are NO pyramids in the Valley of the Kings.

[minnesota_bound]

They will find the aliens tomb.

[Rio]

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Quick, call Whorealdo Rivera.

[PIF]

King Tutankhamun’s tomb is in the Valley of Kings - not on Giza. Carson was wrong.

[TangibleDisgust]

i hope they open this in my lifetime. i fear there will be 10-20 years of bureaucratic haggling and inaction while the antiquities people argue and bicker amongst themselves over who gets credit and who gets the loot and who gets to do the work... even with Hawass already gone.

i hope the same thing about that Nazi train in Poland. i’m reasonably convinced that it really is there and the Polish government just decided they would dig it up without the world press sticking their noses in their business. i wonder if we’ll ever learn any more details about that one.

[Sacajaweau]

Just trying to get a Carson “joke” in there.