The retiring few age have seen some juicy claims regarding a secret sleeping accommodation hidden behind the tomb of King Tutankhamun , ancient Egypt ’s favorite boy - baron . Now , the most conclusive sketch to date has weighed in on the controversial theory .
brake drum roll , please … There is no hidden chamber after all .
Egypt ’s Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities , Dr Mostafa Waziri , announced on Sundaythat raw radar imaging by Italy ’s Turin Polytechnic University render conclusive evidence that no out of sight way exist inside the burial chamber of King Tut .
archeologist had previously claim they were“90 percent sure”that the hidden chamber exists . The hunt for the lose rooms in the beginning spring from asensational claimmade by British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves , who argued the grave of Tutankhamun was actually an out chamber for the grave of Queen Nefertiti , one of the wives of Tutankhamun ’s father , Akhenaten . He even argued the long - lost body of the infamous queen could still be lying within the secret passage since her clay have never been determine .
Dr Francesco Porcelli , the lead researcher of the raw projection , has now concluded “ with a very gamy level of self-confidence ” that no such chamber or corridor exists . They used Ground Penetrating Radar to “ see through ” the thick rock tombs and search for any discontinuity between the bulwark ’s thickness . If a sealed portion of natural careen paries appear to be thinner , it could suggest the presence of a human - made blocking paries , add sometime after the initial body structure was make . or else , if the wall appear to have a large void behind it , this could indicate that there ’s a room behind .
However , this young enquiry showed no such indication of any shady walls , nor any gravid empty voids lurking behind them .
" It is possibly a piddling bit unsatisfying that there is nothing behind the wall of Tutankhamun ’s tomb , but I think on the other hand that this is unspoilt science , " supply Dr Porcelli , grant toBBC News . Egypt ’s Antiquities Minister , Khaled al - Anani , said the dominance in the state accepted the results .
King Tutankhamun ’s mummy still roost in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings . Back in November 1922 , the tombwas uncoveredby British archaeologists , perhaps for the first time since the male child - Billie Jean Moffitt King ruled ancient Egypt around 1332 to 1323 BCE . With his iconic gold and blue striped death mask , Tutankhamun has become somewhat of a poster male child for all Egyptian Pharaohs .
