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Lutz

Nicholas Reeves : The Burial of Nefertiti? (2015) :

Robson · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 10:06 pm Post subject:

Thank you for sharing Lutz

This hypothesis can also explain Ankhkheperure's artifacts among Tut's burial paraphernalia.

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karnsculpture · Scribe Joined: 27 May 2010 Posts: 307

I find it hard to believe that at some point the walls highlighted in the article haven't been investigated for additional chambers but it's certainly worth checking.

I don't buy the idea that the wall paintings were originally of Neferneferuaten and Tutankhamun though, I think that is stretching the evidence too far.

Let's hope, now that more excavations are due to happen that more evidence is found. Hawass never did get to publish the findings of the 2009/10 (?) work in the VoK did he?

Lutz · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:28 pm Post subject:

Robson · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:58 pm Post subject:

Ikon · Scribe Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 275

Read this all the way through, sat back and took several deep breaths and began thinking is there anything obviously wrong with what Reeves suggests. Admittedly there are aspects beyond my competance so I have to take some of what he writes at face value, but I see nothing obvious that sticks out and shouts "false alarm". Read it through again, slowly, looking at all the references, and I think he may be correct at least in that there are two further chambers in KV62. I wait to see if experts can seriously knock Reeves before getting over excited, but the possibility of two so far unknown chambers existing in KV62, no matter what they may contain, is excitement enough. The possibility of an untouched full pharaonic burial of Nefertiti is simply mind blowing. I wonder if Reeves can convince SCA to investigate, let's hope so.

karnsculpture · Scribe Joined: 27 May 2010 Posts: 307

Well yes, if at all possible, I hope that they do look into his paper. Surely there are ways to test his theory without damaging the paintings?

The thought of Neferneferuaten being found would also raise interesting questions about the Younger Lady in KV35.

Ikon · Scribe Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 275

Perhaps some investigation where the floor meets the wall at the two possible door locations. Then if evidence can be seen that there is a strong possibility of there being a door, maybe a small hole drilled through the floor at a shallow angle as presumably the floor level in any possible side chambers, or passage/steps, could be lower than the floor level of the burial chamber and a void would be discovered and an endoscope would quickly show what lies behind. But vibration of a drill would perhaps be unacceptable, and the sarcophagus may be an obstacle for a drill at such a shallow angle, but this is way in the future, if at all. Though if this idea flies then somebody is going to have to make tough descisions, and if there are doors then part of the wall will have to be removed as I cannot see any possibility of leaving sealed doors in KV62 unexplored.

neseret · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:01 pm Post subject:

evarelap · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:36 pm Post subject:

This is amazing. Thank tou Lutz for keeping us up to date. The article was really good. Hopefully this issue about two additional rooms in KV62 is investigated soon enough. Imagine if Nefertiti's mummy is found inside the north room. That would be even an even greater discovery than KV62 was back in Carter's days.

evarelap · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:36 pm Post subject:

This is amazing. Thank tou Lutz for keeping us up to date. The article was really good. Hopefully this issue about two additional rooms in KV62 is investigated soon enough. Imagine if Nefertiti's mummy is found inside the north room. That would be even an even greater discovery than KV62 was back in Carter's days.

burlgirl · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:02 pm Post subject:

I hope Reeves is right, but I see why he might not be. If Nefertiti was buried with full pharonic regalia, and the gold mask, canopic stoppers and mini-coffins were hers, how could she be be buried behind the wall undisturbed (the wall having her figures on them and not broken through) if those items had been taken for Tut's burial? I guess Tut's administration could have plundered her grave goods before putting up the wall, but I had always had the impression that those grave goods were taken closer to Tut's own death.

It seems like you are having it both ways. I hope I'm seeing this wrong...
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Naunacht · Priest Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 515 Location: U.S. NJ

Cool theory. If Nefertiti was found with her burial intact it would be the find of the century. Of course it could also be that there's a doorway there but the room it led to was never completed and was filled at the time of Tut's burial.

Robson · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:34 pm Post subject:

karnsculpture · Scribe Joined: 27 May 2010 Posts: 307

Yep, possibly the princesses who disappear from the historical record after the reign of Akhenaten. It may explain KV63, and draw a line under a few things. I hope that the Egyptian authorities investigate.