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Scientists Say Egypt is in Denial Over Hidden Rooms in King Tut's Tomb
Atlas Obscura ^
| May 12, 2016
| Erik Shilling
Posted on 05/15/2016 5:22:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists said earlier this year that they had found some secret rooms in Tutankhamen's tomb. What could they contain? A popular theory was the tomb of Queen Nefertiti. But other scientists later said that there was good reason to doubt the claims, which were based on scans.
Now, the situation has gotten a little bit uglier. A team of radar technicians performed a second, more detailed set of scans on the tomb earlier this year, and sent their results off to Egypt's ministry of antiquities. But the government now has refused to release their findings, and scientists are beginning to cry foul, according to the Guardian.
What could the government be hiding? Perhaps, the scientists say, the hidden tombs don't exist at all. The first scans have also been called into question, after Hirokatsu Watanabe, the Japanese radar specialist that performed them, refused to release raw data associated with the scans because, he said, no one else could understand it except for him.
"My understanding is that the Egyptians are in a state of denial about this," one unnamed scientist told the Guardian (even science reporting apparently requires anonymous sources sometimes). "They are freaking out, and it has become politically toxic. When you're the in the middle of a situation in which people are being purged because of their position on this, then scientists should back off and let the politics take its course. We have left the realm of science."
The Egyptian government has so far refused to address the issue, but scientists quoted in National Geographic, which organized the second round of radar scans, said flatly that the rooms aren't there.
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; akhenaten; amarna; ancientegypt; colorado; denver; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; hirokatsuwatanabe; indenial; italy; japan; justariverinegypt; kingtut; kv21; kv35; kv55; kv62; larryconyers; lawrenceconyers; michelepipan; nefertiti; newkingdom; nicholasreeves; rimshot; smenkhkhare; trieste; tutankhamen; tutankhamun; uofdenver; uoftrieste; valleyofthekings
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05/15/2016 5:22:52 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3430886/posts Is Egypt 'suppressing truth' about new King Tut research? ["state of de Nile"] This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 05/15/2016 5:04:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason: No link
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:23:09 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:23:28 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
The thread is back! But for how long?
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:26:45 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
To: SunkenCiv
Scientists Say Egypt is in Denial...
Why, I always thought it was the other way around!
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:26:50 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:27:37 PM PDT
by
MuttTheHoople
(Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
To: SunkenCiv
They found the wheat storage rooms.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:30:57 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: SunkenCiv
Better that they recognize the scourge of Islam and get rid of that.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:31:00 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Live Free or Die.)
To: ChessExpert
Until the Men in Black pull the plug.
Can’t have the public finding out about the
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:31:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: MuttTheHoople
One favorite bit of naughty humor was when Martin as Tut was asked what the curse of King Tut was, and he responded, “Sonovab*tch!”
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:33:36 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:33:52 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: COBOL2Java
I hate you because you made the joke first.
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05/15/2016 5:34:45 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
To: MuttTheHoople
Heh, I saw that when it happened! SNL!
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:41:39 PM PDT
by
W.
(Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:45:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: ChessExpert
The original was an AOL story, apparently the URLs are temporary and server-generated, in order to screw with, well, FR and other sites.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:46:59 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: ifinnegan
Ben was in there, working on Trump’s VP list.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:48:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
Hirokatsu Watanabe, the Japanese radar specialist that performed them, refused to release raw data associated with the scans because, he said, no one else could understand it except for him. Settled Science!!
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:53:39 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
To: SunkenCiv
“Scientists said earlier this year that they had found some secret rooms in Tutankhamen’s tomb.....But other scientists later said that there was good reason to doubt the claims,”
The science is settled. eom.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:53:53 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
To: SunkenCiv
This article is really confusing to me.
The scientists of the second test clearly state they don’t think the secret rooms exist.
So what is the government supposed to be in denial about?
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05/15/2016 5:56:53 PM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: SunkenCiv
It is a fact that the Egyptian way of building with sand supporting stones in the erection process and then evacuating the sand to settle the stones into place leaves large voids behind in the structure.
This sounds like bunk.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:59:24 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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