‘Could Be the Biggest Discovery Ever’: Archeologists Think They May Have Found Nefertiti’s Tomb

Nefertiti, the beautiful and powerful queen and great royal wife thought to have ruled Ancient Egypt in the 14th century BC, has fascinated historians, archeologists and Egyptologists alike for many decades, as her royal tomb was never found and is thought by many to be hidden, buried in the desert.

Queen Nefertiti’s tomb may indeed be hidden behind the walls of the 3,300-year-old tomb of King Tutankhamun, archeologists led by former Egyptian minister of antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty believe.

It is here where Nefertiti, great royal wife and queen who presided over one of the most prosperous and stable periods in Ancient Egyptian history, is buried, archeologists believe.

The groundbreaking theory that Nefertiti, great royal wife and possible co-ruler alongside King Akhenaten, was buried in Tut’s tomb was first put forth by British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves in 2015. However, these claims have since been challenged, with a team led by Francesco Porcelli of the Turin Polytechnic University concluding in 2017 that there were no hidden rooms in or around the tomb.

Tutankhamun’s tomb

Dr. Ray Johnson, an Egyptologist from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, told Nature that the group’s findings were “tremendously exciting,” noting that “clearly there is something on the other side of the north wall of the burial chamber.”

Zahi Hawass, another former Egyptian antiquities minister, expressed doubts about the new claims, insisting that the use of ground-penetrating radar “never made any discovery at any site in Egypt.”

Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in 1922 by a pair of British archeologists who became the first living people to enter the tomb in over 3,000 years. Thousands of artefacts ranging from furniture to chariots, musical instruments and board games were found, with the burial site remaining the only pharaoh tomb to ever be discovered intact and unpilfered.

Tutankhamun’s tomb

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