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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
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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To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:07:54 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps they simply want to protect the treasure until they have purged the radical islamicists who will inevitably destroy the treasures out of some historical sense of penis envy.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:11:09 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: SunkenCiv
**...Egypt is in Denial ...**
And all this time, I thought de Nile was in Egypt?
I always learn a lot from your threads SC.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:13:49 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: SunkenCiv
Pretty face, but that cone head is a real turnoff ...
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:18:28 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
To: SunkenCiv
After `Hair Club for Aliens':
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:24:03 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: ifinnegan
As good a theory as any the way things stand.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:43:32 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: SunkenCiv
Nothing to see, move along...
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:47:53 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:47:58 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
To: Talisker
While looking for the transgender bathroom...
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:53:14 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m at a loss here. This only appears to be a scientific question to me. What am I missing? Can you shed some light on the subject?
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:55:23 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/15/2016 7:00:38 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: rlmorel
Someone always leaves the TP to unwind, the wrong way. Always.
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posted on
05/15/2016 7:06:01 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: SunkenCiv
They will find Brian Williams when the new rooms are opened.
To: Daffynition
hahahhahahahahaha! I’m keeping that one!
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posted on
05/15/2016 7:44:49 PM PDT
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: SunkenCiv
Didn’t Cayce, the sleeping
psychic, predict that rooms would be found at the pyramid?
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posted on
05/15/2016 7:54:43 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: rlmorel
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posted on
05/15/2016 8:27:53 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: Paladin2
Islam wants to delete antiquities so delaying the research will keep them safe for now.
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posted on
05/16/2016 2:10:59 AM PDT
by
x_plus_one
(Christ is King)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/16/2016 4:24:59 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: Mount Athos
The Egyptians only allowed the presentation of two researchers, Reeves (who started this with his fine-tooth-comb look at the hi-res digital scans of the interior walls of the tomb) and Watanabe (I think it was), both of whom are telling the Egyptians what they want to hear. A new, previously unsuspected tomb would help boost tourism, which started off the cliff when Morsi the Islamofascist took power a few years back.
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posted on
05/16/2016 5:16:10 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/16/2016 5:17:54 AM 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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