Posted on 01/02/2023 10:05:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
One of the world’s foremost Egyptologists says that recent hieroglyphics discoveries in King Tut’s tomb give further credence to a theory he put forth more than seven years ago: that Queen Nefertiti’s body is inside a hidden chamber next to that of her stepson, King Tutankhamun.
Nicholas Reeves, an Egyptologist and former curator at the British Museum, realized that cartouches—carved oval or oblong tablets that enclose a group of Egyptian hieroglyphs—showing Tutankhamun being buried by Ay, his successor, had been painted over other cartouches that showed Tutankhamen burying Nefertiti, according to the Guardian.
“I can now show that, under the cartouches of Ay, are cartouches of Tutankhamun himself, proving that that scene originally showed Tutankhamun burying his predecessor, Nefertiti. You would not have had that decoration in the tomb of Tutankhamun,” he told the Guardian...
In 2015, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities gave Reeves permission to do on-site 3D resonances, which support his theories.
Reeves argued at that time that the high-resolution images of Tutankhamun’s tomb showed lines underneath plastered surfaces of painted walls, suggesting unexplored doorways. However, some other experts felt that the scans were inconclusive, according to The Guardian.
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I thought this got posted before, but couldn't find it on FR. Reeves used non-invasive techniques (geophys, in the parlance of Time Team) to discover KV-63, and of course Hawass denied that he'd discovered anything because he hadn't actually done the excavation. Reeves was under investigation at the time and unable to operate in Egypt. Gee, I wonder whose idea it was to investigate him?
Archaeologist Nicholas Reeves insists Tutankhamun’s tomb leads to Nefertiti’s tomb
Mustafa Marie
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 - 01:29 GMT
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/119465/Archaeologist-Nicholas-Reeves-insists-Tutankhamun-s-tomb-leads-to-Nefertiti
I remember when they first raised the possibility of a hidden doorway.
What next? Are they going to find a way to carefully breach a hidden chamber?
I hope so, WE WANNA KNOW…🙂
Tutankhamun’s tomb: How scientists solved the mystery of its hidden rooms
By Dylan Bickerstaffe
Published: 14th December, 2022 at 07:00
Dylan is an Egyptologist, lecturer and writer, with a special interest in the royal mummies.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/magazine/tutankhamuns-tomb/
Ask Joe Biden. He said he was there
Hawass needs to catch a very painful disease for the damage he has singlehandedly wrought upon the science of archaeology.
I highly doubt that a ‘secret’ was merely hidden under a layer of paint (correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems unprecedented in Egyptology) but, unlike Hawass, I’d find that the discovery merits investigation itself...rather than persecuting one of his peers for the discovery.
This week on “Cold Case Files”
So thats why the Brits use “Mummy” for Mom.
Tut was a mummy’s boy...
Thanks for this interesting information!
Once doctrines become settled, the beneficiaries of established consensus have incomes, reputations, networks, tricks of the trade, and personality cults to protect.
Corruption and destruction under the color of research and progress. And even or especially Godliness.
Science, academia, medicine, media, politics, religion —
filled with
gods, graves, and glyphs that *don’t* speak, see, hear, eat, or smell.. having been set in stone, carved in wood.
If that dude with the wild hair on tv talking about aliens all the time is right it should be a spaceship.
It says, “I buried her in the back yard close to the fountain”.
Is such a thing even possible? Yes, it is.
Ay, every inch a pharaoh.
People who study mummies aren't always wrapped too tight.
I wholeheartedly agree.
My view is that KV-62 was an unused and unfinished, and probably abandoned tomb, and there were minor voids that had been encountered, or natural cracks, a probably that apparently led to abandonment of other never-used KV tombs.
Tut died young and was given a hurried burial, and his grave goods (like those in KV-55, another burial from the last dregs of the 18th dynasty) were borrowed from others' former property. I don't think that was rare, it was probably normal practice, keepsakes and heirlooms from ancestors and whatnot were probably interred with pharaohs, we just don't have much to go on, since all the other pharaonic burials were plundered in antiquity.
The small size of KV-62 may have been a benefit given the short time frame available for the various rites and so on, and the unfinished passages and/or voids were walled off and/or plastered over.
[snip] Some have theorized that when Tutankhamen died suddenly at an early age, a tomb that was originally planned for him in the West Valley (KV 23 or KV 25) was not ready. It may have been decided to bury Tutankhamen in the main Valley in a tomb originally intended for Ay when he was still a God's Father, near the Amarna cache (KV 55). According to this theory, Ay later took the West Valley tomb (KV 23) after succeeding Tutankhamen to the throne. [/snip]Tutankhamen | Theban Mapping Project
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