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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at atlasobscura.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
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King Tut!

1 posted on 05/15/2016 5:22:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 05/15/2016 5:23:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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3 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.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The thread is back! But for how long?


4 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.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Scientists Say Egypt is in Denial...

Why, I always thought it was the other way around!


5 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)
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6 posted on 05/15/2016 5:27:37 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: SunkenCiv

They found the wheat storage rooms.


7 posted on 05/15/2016 5:30:57 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SunkenCiv

Better that they recognize the scourge of Islam and get rid of that.


8 posted on 05/15/2016 5:31:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: ChessExpert

Until the Men in Black pull the plug.

Can’t have the public finding out about the


9 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.)
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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!”


10 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)
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To: COBOL2Java

Beat me to it :-)


11 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)
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To: COBOL2Java

I hate you because you made the joke first.


12 posted on 05/15/2016 5:34:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Heh, I saw that when it happened! SNL!


13 posted on 05/15/2016 5:41:39 PM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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King Tut!

14 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.)
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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.


15 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.)
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To: ifinnegan

Ben was in there, working on Trump’s VP list.


16 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.)
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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!!

17 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.)
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“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.


18 posted on 05/15/2016 5:53:53 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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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?


19 posted on 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)
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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.

20 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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