Scans of King Tut's Tomb Reveal Hidden Rooms, Egypt's Antiquities Ministry Says

[NWCorona]

Source: NBC news

CAIRO — Radar scans of King Tut's tomb have revealed two spaces on the north and east chambers of the pharaonic mausoleum that could contain the "discovery of the century," Egypt's antiquities ministry said Thursday.

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty told a press conference that metal and organic masses were revealed by the scans, signaling that the rooms could possibly contain funerary objects.

"It could be the discovery of the century. It's very important for Egyptian history and the history of the world," he said, adding that the chambers may well have belonged to a king or queen. Further tests will be done on March 31 to discover more about the newly-discovered spaces, he added

One prominent Egyptologist has theorized that Queen Nefertiti, whose regal beauty was immortalized in a bust on display in a Berlin museum, could be buried in the walls of Tut's 3,300-year-old pharaonic mausoleum.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scans-king-tut-s-tomb-reveal-hidden-rooms-egypt-s-n540631

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I've always been fascinated with ancient Africa and this story has the potential to be groundbreaking.

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qmhUtA0Pf.vtsUEx5DvFfg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9MTc0O3E9NzU7dz0yNTY-/

[merrily]

1. Weird ears. Isn't there also something about Tut's tomb having been split to

accommodate a secret tomb that is Tut adjacent?

[NWCorona]

2. Yes that's the thinking

I just hope it's something real this time.

[Betty Karlson]

27. The ears were a portrait fashion at the time.

Like Lincoln, pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaten probably had Marfan's syndrom. But unlike his predecessors, who ordered their busts to be "embellished with perfection", Akhenaten asked to be portrayed true to life. Consequently, all portraits of his contemporaries (including his wife Nefertiti and children, among whom Tutankhamun) were embellished with "pharaoh-like physical attributes". It would have been treasonous to imply that the pharaoh's portrait didn't express perfection, after all. And why would any self-respecting upper-class Egyptian NOT want to look a bit like the pharaoh, if only in his/ her portrait?

[mac56]

3. "How did all that grain get in here?"

[NWCorona]

8. I see what you did there

[Lochloosa]

14. Secret tunnel from the pyramids...

[Jarqui]

4. This is a pretty good story on it from National Geographic

Scans of King Tut’s Tomb Reveal New Evidence of Hidden Rooms




Send in Geraldo Rivera. Maybe he can finally find Capones stuff!

[NWCorona]

5. Or Dr Hawass lol

Thanks for the link

[AxionExcel]

6. Sneer if you must, but Edgar Cayce "saw" this long ago

I'm sure the hardcore cynics are right. Cayce's vision was just a, um, scientific coincidence.

[NWCorona]

7. I've read up on Edgar Cayce

A very interesting guy for sure

[Archae]

11. Cayce "saw" lots of stuff that turned out to be bullshit.

He was a kook. To put it mildly.

http://skepdic.com/cayce.html

[AxionExcel]

15. Ad hominem attacks are a dandy way to distract people from evidence

But a damn poor excuse for "science" to just go calling someone names.

Many people regard ad hominem attacks as a form of "Republican Science."

Did Cayce see hidden chambers or not?

[Archae]

18. Considering the fact that archaeologists find hidden chambers a lot in ancient tombs...

It's not surprising Cayce "predicted" there would be some in Tut's tomb.

And it's not "ad hominem" to call Cayce a kook, because he *WAS* a kook.

He would even "prescribe" his boiled root "remedies" to people who were dead!

Contrary to Cayce's "visions," Atlantis never existed, and never had this "magic crystal."

Red China did not turn Christian in 1968, as Cayce "predicted."

[AxionExcel]

24. So you are confirming that Edgar Cayce was right

The rest of the stuff you are throwing out here is irrelevant.

The question is, did Cayce forsee this?

You are confirming that he did.

Thank you for your honesty.

[Archae]

25. It *IS* relevant.

Would you trust a stock broker who got maybe 1% of his predictions on stocks correct?

A weatherman with a similar record?

Cayce GUESSED.

In this case, he guessed correct, based on what he already KNEW.

Tell me, do you believe in those "psychic predictions" in the supermarket tabloids?

[sarge43]

16. Most tombs did have anti chambers

Some for storage, family burials or to fool tomb robbers.

Wasn't much of a leap of imagination on his part.

[Hekate]

17. ante ..... antechambers. Anti = against. Ante = before.

I'm sorry. I try to not be a spelling nazi, especially since I got an iPad and can now identify all of its most common forced errors because it Just. Won't. Quit. Garbling. My. Own. Spelling.

But I haven't had my coffee yet and I am descended from five generations of schoolmarms and this just made me whimper.

Go. Have a good day.

[Ghost Dog]

35. Can you not turn off autocorrect on an iPad?

First thing I did here under Android on this 'phone.

[Hekate]

37. There's probably a way to do it. As it is I have to proof every line and word before hitting send...

...so I think that alone sucks up more time than I putatively save by it guessing what I want so all I have to do is tap that offering. It's a terrific little device, in that I am now freed from my desk, but it has its limitations.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. Go to general setting

Then click on keyboard. This will allow you to turn off autocorrect and auto initialization

[Hekate]

40. Thank you Thank you

Thank you

[awoke_in_2003]

41. You are very welcome

[progressoid]

28. Pro tip. There are forums for posts like this on DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1135

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1220

[HuckleB]

29. +1,000,000 ... 000

[jpak]

9. DON"T DO IT!!!1111

[PJMcK]

10. It's a condo made of stone-a

Steve Martin nailed it decades ago:

[n2doc]

12. Calling Geraldo! We've found Capone's Treasure! n/t

[maxsolomon]

19. stop talking about it and actually do it. open it up.

too much blah blah out of the antiquities ministry.

[NWCorona]

20. Agreed

But if Dr Hawass was still in charge we probably wouldn't even know about this lol.

[maxsolomon]

21. the Donald Trump of antiquities

I was given a book that he signed for Xmas one year - a huge signature in gold.

[NWCorona]

22. Haha

Very fitting! That guy just like trump, thinks he's bigger than life itself

[Xithras]

38. Problem is, opening it up destroys priceless heiroglyphics.

King Tuts tomb was painted before his burial and is covered in heiroglyphics. If the theory is correct, Tuts tomb is actually the original tombs antechamber, which was later converted into a tomb in its own right. Getting to the original main room would require opening holes through walls that were repurposed for the later burial.

This image shows where one of the doors is suspected to be:


In theory, excavators could tunnel down from the outside and cut an entirely new set of entrances into the chambers, but doing THAT will almost certainly destroy the previously unread heiroglyphics on the walls of those chambers.

So, yeah, they're taking their time.

[packman]

23. Yawn, this has been a 10 year old story

Seems as if they are always finding "secret" things in those Egyptian monuments and tombs. Remember the "Secret" room under the paws of the Sphinx ? And what about those mysterious tunnels in the pyramids?

Get those shovels out, start digging for Tut's sake - be done with it.

[kentauros]

46. It's being officially revealed (and accepted) now

because the biggest roadblock to such a release of information, Dr. Zahi Hawass, is no longer in charge. There's no telling how much is still to be discovered because he actively prevented existing discoveries from being revealed.

For example, the cave system under Giza:

Vast cave complex discovered under Giza pyramids

Following the publication of Salt’s memoirs in 2007, Collins and colleague Nigel Skinner-Simpson pinned down the entrance to Salt’s caves, and became the first people in modern times, along with Collins’ wife, to explore this cave underworld, entered via an ancient tomb designated NC2 (north cliff 2).

At the time Hawass dismissed the discovery of what he called “Collins’ cave”, saying that the British writer had simply got confused inside an already known tomb, adding that there are no natural caves at Giza.

But Collins has now been proved correct, and is just happy that his work has finally been vindicated.

“We discovered a previously unknown cave system at Giza, the first ever recorded here or anywhere else in Egypt in connection with a rock-cut tomb from antiquity. This must count for something.”

[PoliticAverse]

26. I refuse to believe such a thing until it is announced on Art Bell's program. n/t

[NWCorona]

32. Is he still on the air?

[PoliticAverse]

33. His on again/off again radio career is off at the moment...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

[NWCorona]

34. That gets really tiring IMHO

He had a great show years ago

[awoke_in_2003]

42. I always found him entertaining...

I didn't believe any of it, just enjoyed listening.

[yellowcanine]

30. NEED TO GET GERALDO RIVERA ON THAT RIGHT NOW!

OPEN THOSE VAULTS!

[yellowcanine]

31. Paging Harrison Ford....."Please come and bring the bull whip."

[AngryAmish]

43. Harrison Ford? I want Steve Martin.

[Judi Lynn]

45. "Struttin' Tut." So cool. n/t

[warrprayer]

36. Cool news,for a change!

Kick and rec for science!

[Judi Lynn]

44. So amazing to find something which hasn't already been plundered!

Here's hoping something inside the hidden rooms will illuminate something about Egypt, open a window widely into that time.

It would seem the whole world would be so deeply interested.

Thanks for your info.