Despite more than 100 years since its discovery, the secrets of Tutankhamun’s tomb are still emerging day by day.
New evidence has revealed that the famous tomb also includes the tomb of the legendary Queen Nefertiti.
The treasure of the tomb and with it other treasures
The information added that a team led by British archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered exactly 100 years ago today, a stone room in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, where the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was located, explaining that if excavation continued to that time, the world would have discovered a reward greater than the king’s tomb, Dr. Nicholas Reeves suggested to the same newspaper that the most famous woman in the ancient world, the “Queen Nefertiti”, is also buried there, according to a revised book by the British scientist. .
The legendary queen Nefertiti
It is believed, according to existing symbols, that the person who performed the funeral rites was not me but Tutankhamun himself, and this implies that these illustrations originally showed Tutankhamun burying his predecessor Nefertiti, because the room was originally part of his resting place. .
Carter also estimated that much of the luxurious funerary items that were buried with Tutankhamun were stolen prior to his discovery of the site in 1922, meaning, if what he says is true, the artifacts rumored to have been stolen may have been was buried with Nefertiti.
Part of the new evidence also included a group of hieroglyphs symbolizing the ruler’s name, which was painted on the north wall of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, according to the British newspaper The Times.
“Beauty has arrived” … The mystery of Nefertiti’s tomb
Interestingly, Nefertiti, whose name means “the beauty has come”, is the main consort, the wife of King Amenhotep IV, who later became Akhenaten the famous 18th dynasty pharaoh, who reigned in the 14th century BC.
Known as the “Lady of all women” and “Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt”, she lived during the richest period of ancient Egypt, where she was considered one of the most powerful women.
Some scholars believe she was buried in Amarna, the capital founded by her husband, while others have debated the identity of two mummies found 250 miles above the river in the Valley of the Kings.
While Egyptians believe that Tutankhamun was placed in a makeshift burial chamber in the front porch of a structure built for Nefertiti, archaeologists were baffled by the modest size of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, which is about the same size as the antechamber. and Reeves’ theory gained momentum in 2016.
