A technician uses ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to search for voids behind the west wall of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The 2018 investigation was coordinated by specialists from the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy.
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It’s Official: Tut’s Tomb Has No Hidden Chambers After All
The third radar scan of the pharaoh's burial site conclusively shows that no additional mysteries lurk immediately behind its walls.
Recent radar scans of Tutankhamun's tomb conclusively prove that there are no additional chambers or passages behind the walls of the famed pharaoh's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, Egyptian officials announced today.
A statement was released today on behalf of Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, during the fourth annual International Tutankhamun GEM Conference, held at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza.
The announcement brings to a disappointing end an investigation that began three years ago, when Egyptologist and National Geographic grantee Nicholas Reeves theorized that the tomb of legendary 18th-Dynasty queen Nefertiti may be hidden behind the walls of Tut's 3,300-year-old tomb.
Two previous tests of Reeves' theory, using ground-penetrating radar (GPR)
