Egypt Abbot Says Added Scans Nude for King Tut's 'Buried Chamber

Egypt's antiquities abbot said on Friday added tests were bare to actuate whether there is a abstruse alcove in the
tomb of Tutankhamun that some accept may adumbrate Queen Nefertiti's remains.

The advertisement by Khaled al-Anani at a columnist appointment in Luxor abject hopes that addition alarm browse conducted on Thursday would accommodate authoritativeness on whether the age-old tomb had hidden chambers.

His antecedent Mamduh Damati had said beforehand this ages that there was a "90 percent chance" of two hidden accommodation absolute amoebic material, abaft a bank in the age-old Egyptian boy king's tomb.

The aureate sarcophagus of Baron Tutankhamun displayed in his burying alcove in the Valley of the Kings, abutting to Luxor, 500 kms south of the Egyptian basic Cairo on April 1, 2016

He said experts would conduct a fourth browse of the tomb in the end of April, again allure advisers for a appointment to abstraction the after-effects in the aboriginal anniversary of May.

Nothing will be appear until there is a absolute study," he said.

Renowned British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, who abounding the columnist conference, has said that Nefertiti's tomb could be in a abstruse alcove abutting Tutankhamun's in the Valley of Kings necropolis at Luxor in southern Egypt.

Reeves, assistant of archaeology at the University of Arizona, believes one aperture of Tutankhamun's tomb could burrow the burying abode of Nefertiti, the wife of Tutankhamun's father.

According to him, Tutankhamun, who died unexpectedly, was entombed agilely in an underground alcove apparently not advised for him.

Former antiquities abbot Damati said this ages that basic scans had unearthed affirmation of "two hidden apartment abaft the burying chamber" of the boy king.

Anani had told AFP on Thursday that assay would actuate the array of a accessible bank abaft the funerary chamber.

"There is a achievability that there is a cavity, afterwards the latest scan. I achievement we will acquisition something... but as a scientist I charge to be accurate afore announcement results," Anani said.

He added that if the latest browse appear added affirmation of a hidden room, a baby aperture could be apathetic through a bank and a camera amid to ascertain what lay behind.

Nefertiti played a above political and religious role in the 14th aeon BC.

She actively accurate her bedmate Akhenaten  Tutankhamun's ancestor -- who briefly adapted age-old Egypt to monotheism by arty the band of sun god Aton.

Tutankhamun died age-old 19 in 1324 BC afterwards just nine years on the throne. His final comatose abode was apparent by addition British Egyptologist, Howard Carter, in 1922

Egypt's antiquities abbot Khaled al-Anani speaks to the columnist alfresco Baron Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, abutting to Luxor, 500 kms south of the basic Cairo on April 1, 2016