Antiquities
Minister Khaled al-Anany said on Friday no clear outcome was reached
after the radar scans of King Tutankhamun's tomb.
The US-Egyptian team completed scans using a digital,
ground-penetrating radar on Thursday. The team comprised both the
current antiquities minister and the former, Mamdouh al-Damaty, as well
as the Head of Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Mahmoud Afify, Head of
Projects Sector Waadullah abul Ela, Faculty of Engineering Assistant
Professor Yasser al-Shayeb, National Research Institute of Astronomy and
Geophysics member Abbas Mohamed, in addition to two National Geographic
experts.
The radar scanned each wall of the burial chamber of
Tutankhamun's tomb, producing high resolution data that the team hope to
use in producing 3D images of what is behind the walls.
Anany added that the scans could prove right Egyptologist
Nicholas Reeves’s theory that the lost body of Queen Nefertiti, the wife
of Tutankhamun's father, the pharaoh Akhenaten, could be found in one
of the tomb’s chambers.
The team said that the outcome reached by Thursday's scans
does not contradict the findings of previous radar scans, however more
time is needed before any accurate results can be finalized. The radar
experts said that 40 radar scans were conducted at different heights.
The outcome will be published in a week's time.
An additional vertical radar scan will be carried out at
end of April from outside the tomb, he added. The results will declared
in a press conference in May at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
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