Back in June of 2015, the archaeological world was electrified by a paper that suggested hidden rooms lay behind a wall in King Tutankhamen’s’s tomb.
Nick Reeves, the author of the paper, and a respected Egyptologist at Arizona State University, suggested that, based on detailed photographic scans of the tomb, a doorway to an unopened room was hiding in plain sight, covered up by paintings on the wall. In his paper, he cites both visual evidence — the presence of telltale lines in the artwork — and contextual evidence, such as a right turn in the L-shaped tomb, suggesting the burial is part of a much larger excavation meant to house a female pharaoh.
The latest update to the story came several weeks ago, when an analysis of radar scans by Japanese experts that there was indeed something behind the walls, and offered evidence of metal and organic material. Another round of scans took place Friday, aimed at providing more concrete evidence of possible chambers. The results of those, and upcoming scans, are expected to be announced early this month.
