CAIRO, EGYPT—Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh el-Damaty has approved the use of noninvasive radar technology to search for a tomb behind Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves proposed that Tutankhamun, who died at the age of 19, may have been buried in an outer chamber of a tomb constructed for Queen Nefertiti. Reeves says that the high-resolution images taken of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Factum Arte show lines underneath the plastered and painted surfaces of the walls. The lines could be doorways leading to a hidden chamber. He also suggested that the layout of Tutankhamun’s tomb resembles those built for ancient Egyptian queens. “We’re very excited… It may not be a tomb belonging to Nefertiti, but it could be a tomb belonging to one of the nobles. If it is Nefertiti’s, this would be very massive,” Mouchira Moussa, a media consultant to the Antiquities Minister, told the Associated Press. To read about previous searches for Nefertiti's tomb, go to "Lost Tombs: In Search of History's Lost Rulers."
