In July 2015 a revolutionary paper suggesting evidence for hitherto unknown chambers within KV 62 with a possible hidden burial of Queen Nefertiti was published. High-definition photographic scans of KV 62 by Arte Factum revealed traces of two possible doorways to such hitherto undiscovered chambers. Hence, the doorway could lead to the true burial chamber of KV 62, while the burial chamber of Tutankhamun would be in fact a modified well-chamber due to his sudden death .
The Egyptian Minister of Antiquities suggested the likely scenario of this being the hidden burial of Kiya, the suggested mother of Tutankhamun. The possible findings based of these preliminary observations range from nothing at all behind the wall or unfinished and closed corridors to storage chamber(s) with additional treasures.
I Will visit Egypt and see this myself before I’m gone. I am so amazing and totally in love with the history of the country@
Good stuff.
When do they plan to open the doorways? Have anyone gotten permission yet from the Egyptian government? Can you give an update on what planned for the excavation?
Funny how it’s always Nefertiti – let me throw a spanner in the works and suggest Smenkhankhre (assuming he is not Nefertiti in another guise) is equally probably. After all we have KV55 with Akhenaten and perhaps Queen Tiye for a while but no tomb or trace of one for Smenkhankhre.
As we see from all the known History of Egypt, barbarians have come and gone and new pharoahs with Egypt rise again. In doing so; the new generation of Pharaoh’s typically repair and restore the damage the Barbarians created. I now wonder why Egypt does not undertake restoring the major pyramids externally as they once appeared new? Which reminds me just who were these sea people— were they Asians as from India, China, Mongolia etc?
Nice, I definitely learned something out of this, whats in the secret passage ways.
The Sea Peoples may have been seafaring confederation that attacked Egypt and other regions of the East Mediterranean at the time of the Late Bronze Age collapse 1200–900 BC. It is possible that they were the same people who destroyed Troy.
Very interesting site & info. Thx for your hard work. Hope you’ll bring it up to date w/ more info soon ! P.S. I’m going to Egypt in September this year.
It’s wonderful to read about Egypt and Pharaohs. Thanks.
Wonderfully informative site. I acquired a limestone Egyptian tablet from c 1500 -500 BCE. This will certainly help me decipher it.
A wonderfully informative site. I hope to use it to decipher an Egyptian limestone tablet from 1500-500 BCE,which I recently acquired.