{"id":2835,"date":"2015-12-02T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2015-12-07T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:40:24","slug":"egypt-90-sure-there-are-hidden-chambers-in-king-tuts-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Egypt ‘90% sure’ there are hidden chambers in King Tut’s tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves believes Tutankhamum may have been rushed into the outer chamber of Nefertiti\u2019s tomb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>
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Not quite sure how they work out these percentages. \u00a0Last time my wife said she was 96% certain about something, she was wrong. \u00a0But this is so clearly an extraordinary story that worth following closely. \u00a0For researchers in\u00a0Egypt\u00a0claim\u00a0there is a 90% chance that hidden chambers will be found within King Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb, based on the preliminary results of a new exploration of the 3,300-year-old mausoleum.<\/p>\n

One researcher has theorised that the remains of Queen Nefertiti may\u00a0be inside – which, given she is so famous, hasn’t been a bad speculation to make for the\u00a0publicity.<\/p>\n

Egypt began the search for the hidden chamber last week. Announcing the results of three days of testing in Luxor, the antiquities minister, Mamdouh el-Damati, said the findings would be sent to Japan <\/a>for a month-long analysis before the search is resumed.<\/p>\n

British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves theorises that Tutankhamun, who died at the age of 19 in\u00a01324 BC after just nine years on the throne, may have been rushed into an outer chamber of what was originally Nefertiti\u2019s tomb.\u00a0Reeves reached his theory after high-resolution images discovered what he said were straight lines in Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb. These lines, previously hidden by colour and the stones\u2019 texture, indicate the presence of a sealed chamber, he said.<\/p>\n

Nefertiti was the first wife of Akhenaten, who unsuccessfully attempted to switch Egypt to an early form of monotheism. Akhenaten was succeeded by a pharaoh referred to as Smenkhare and then Tutankhamun, who is widely believed to have been Akhenaten\u2019s son.<\/p>\n

Tut, Nefertiti and Akhenaten\u2019s family ruled Egypt during one of its most turbulent periods, which ended with a military takeover by Egypt\u2019s top general , Horemheb. The whole family\u2019s names were wiped out from official records later on. Reeves, who is professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona, believes that Smenkhare is actually Nefertiti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0. Not quite sure how they work out these percentages. \u00a0Last time my wife said she was 96% certain about something, she was wrong. \u00a0But this is so clearly an extraordinary story that worth following closely. \u00a0For researchers in\u00a0Egypt\u00a0claim\u00a0there is a 90% chance that hidden chambers will be found within King Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb, based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}