Experts confident lost Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is in Tut’s Tomb

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Experts confident lost Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is in Tut’s Tomb

November 29th, 2015

Awake Goy

nsnbc : A radar survey of a false wall in the tomb of Tutankhamun revealed a hidden chamber. Experts are confident that they may finally find the final resting place of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.

Funerary mask of Tutankhamun – Youm7

Pharaoh Tutankhamun unexpectedly died at the early age of 19 – some 3,300 years ago. A detailed study of photographs of Tut’s tomb by British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves revealed that one wall has straight lines that gave away a false wall. Reves has proposed the theory that the long-lost tomb of Queen Nefertiti, the stepmother of Tut and first wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten may indeed be in Tut’s tomb.

The tomb of Nefertiti was never found in Armana, the capital erected by Pharao Akhenaten, who was the first to attempt to introduce monotheism to Egypt. The attempt ended, however, in a military coup, due to strong resistance from the Osiris priesthood. The historic annals of Egypt referring to Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and the family were thereafter censored.

Bust of Nefertiti, discovered in 1912. Photo courtesy of Gunnar Bach Pedersen.

On Saturday a team of experts, led by Nicolas Reves, in cooperation with the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry conducted a radar study of the apparently false wall. The data are now being analyzed by Japanese experts. A preliminary look at the radar data has given the team the confidence to say that it is about 90% sure that there is another chamber behind the false wall.

There are two reasons that give Reves and other experts confidence that the newly discovered chamber is the tomb of Nefertiti. For one, the fact that Tut dies unexpectedly at an early age and that it was necessary to rush his funeral. The fact that a number of features of “Tut’s tomb” are consistent with features found in tombs for females.

Some experts believe that Nefertiti in fact may have reigned Egypt under the alias Pharaoh Smenkhare after the death of Akhenaten and before Tutankhamun ascended to the throne. The discovery of Nefertiti‘s final resting place would be regarded as one of the most significant archaeological finds of the century. Following the radar survey, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty held a press conference, saying:

“We said earlier there was a 60 percent chance there is something behind the walls. But now after the initial reading of the scans, we are saying now its 90 percent likely there is something behind the walls”.

Japanese radar specialist Hirokatsu Watanabe told the press that:

“There is, in fact, an empty space behind the wall based on radar, which is very accurate, there is no doubt,”

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said that he expected to reach the other side of the wall in about three month.

He said he expected to reach the other side of the tomb’s wall within three months. Nicolas Reves commented on the excavation project, saying:

“The key is to excavate slowly and carefully and record well. The fact is this isn’t a race. All archaeology is disruption. We can’t go back and re-do it, so we have to do it well in the first place. …I’m feeling more certain today than I expected to be.”

Tuthankhamun, affectively called Tut, died around 1323 B.C.. His undisturbed tomb was discovered in the Vally of Kings in Luxor. Queen Nefertiti’s tom has however, been more elusive. A bust of her has been found in 1912 in Armana, the would be and for a while de facto capital of Egypt’s first monotheistic cult. Akhenaten introduced a religion where the Pharaoh was the sole representative of the one god, Aten.

The cult was not only an attempt to introduce monotheism but an attempt to centralize power and weaken the powerful priesthood of the cult of Osiris and ancient, socially, economically and politically deeply entrenched cults.

Should the excavation result in the finding Nefertiti’s final resting place there may also finally be found an answer to whether the hypothesis that the Queen, known for her beauty, has reigned Egypt under the name Smenkhare or not.

F/AK – nsnbc 29.11.2015

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