Excavations to find the tomb of Nefertiti have been executed in Luxor
A British Egyptologist, who says that the famous Queen Nefertiti would have been buried in a secret chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the legendary pharaoh buried in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, arrive at the end of September in Egypt to check his theory, have announced Monday, September 21 the authorities.
Nefertiti was the wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaton, who has converted his kingdom to monotheism. The tomb of this beautiful queen, who exercised an important political and religious role in the fourteenth century BC, was never discovered.
Nicholas Reeves arrive in Luxor on September 28 to present "an outline of his theory" and participate with the Minister of Antiquities, Mamdouh Al-Damati and Egyptologists ministry "to a field review, within the tomb [ of Tutankhamun], " according to a statement.
Some murals could be concealing two doors
According to a study carried out in 2015 by Mr. Reeves - Egyptologist at the American University of Arizona - the murals in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun could conceal the unknows two doors.
According to him, one of these inputs would lead to "the burial chamber inviolate the original owner of the tomb - Nefertiti." While the other input lead to "an unexplored storage room" which is dated by the era of Tutankhamen, who died at the age of 19 in 1324 BC after a short reign of nine years. He said the death "unexpected" of the child king has forced officials to reopen the tomb of the Queen, ten years after his death, for the tomb of the young pharaoh had not yet been dug.
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