A few days ago, a Japanese expert appointed Hirokatsu Watanabe walking around his mobile radar in the vicinity of the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun (Tut for short) in the presence of the Director of Antiquities in Luxor, Mustafa Waziry, and a handful of journalists. First, it confirmed it had detected the presence of a secret room behind the young pharaoh’s burial chamber (with a probability of 90%). It remains to know its use. This is the beginning of a great fight between Egyptologists like fleas excited by this discovery. According Briton Nicholas Reeves, who first raised the hare by detecting traces of door in the tomb of Tut, it would be the tomb of Nefertiti would have ruled briefly after the death of her husband Akhenaten, as the Smenkhkare. Tutankhamun was the son of another wife of Akhenaten. His death at 19 having overtaken the dignitaries of the regime, he took himself to drop his mummy in the tomb of Smenkhkare / Nefertiti.
Still Nefertiti before her husband Pharaoh
According to French Marc Gabolde specialist of the 18th dynasty, is unlikely. Nefertiti would have died a few months before her husband of pharaoh. His daughter Meritaten appointed and promoted to the rank of royal bride, who would have succeeded him briefly. In short, if the Tutankhamun had to be installed in the grave of his / her predecessor, would be in that of Meritaten. But Egyptologist leans more towards the hypothesis of another member of the royal family, or even a civil personality. Anyway, Marc Gabolde remains very cautious about the actual presence of a secret room. “Keep in mind that Reeves had already proposed an unknown grave from radar imagery southeast of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 2006. After surveys of the Department of Antiquities, the fall proved, in fact, simply be a natural cavity. “
If the French Egyptologist continues to assert that the queen-pharaoh Akhenaten is succeeding Meritaten is given the grave goods found in the tomb of Tut. “This is the last that much has been achieved, even the golden mask. Reeves has just delivered to Al-Ahram Weekly elements of a forthcoming article which I have, moreover, contributed to and which demonstrates the presence of the name of the queen-pharaoh Tutankhamun under that. “If, then, the young Pharaoh should have squatted the tomb of the pharaoh-queen who preceded him, it would be that of Meritaten.
Wedding incestuous
According to Marc Gabolde, Nefertiti would have been a cousin of Pharaoh Akhenaton. Both being the fruits of previous marriages between cousins. The pharaoh’s wife and made the first of all his wives. She bears him a son – Tutankhamen – and six girls, Meritaten. A recent study proves sarcophagus fragment, according to Egyptologist that Nefertiti would have died a few months before her husband. So, she can not have him followed. His mummy has even been found and would be the one named “Younger Lady” found crammed with other here over a century. So impossible that the secret chamber in the tomb of Tut contains Nefertiti. Immediately after the death of his wife Nefertiti, Akhenaten would convolé apparently incestuous marriage with their daughter Meritaten, elder sister of Tutankhamun and perhaps even his nurse. Which would have succeeded him as pharaoh queen. According to the French Egyptologist, if ever Tutankhamun had been installed in the tomb of the previous pharaoh, it would be his sister – and daughter of Nefertiti -. Meritaten
Only a search of the secret room – if it really exists – provide the key to the riddle. But needless to say that before solving for drilling, may damage the tomb of the young pharaoh, the Égytiens must have certainty. In short, it will take much sand in the Valley of the Kings by then. In any case, this fabulous discovery that the affairs of the Egyptians desperately trying to revive tourism.
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