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Monday, 9 May 2016

Archaeologists clash over King Tut secret burial chamber theory

Trouble in paradise: Archeologists apparently butted heads at a conference in Egypt on Sunday over a theory that secret burial chambers could be hidden behind the walls of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The naysayer is none other than media darling and former Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass, who said there’s no way the undiscovered chambers that lie behind the tomb contain the tomb of Queen Nefertiti: "In all my career … I have never come across any discovery in Egypt due to radar scans," Hawass said. This isn’t the first time Hawass has come out against the theory, which British Egyptologist Nicolas Reeves put forward last year. Reeves defended the theory, saying preliminary results of successive scans suggest the tomb contains two open spaces, “with signs of metal and organic matter lying behind its western and northern walls,” according to AP.

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