The Gold Coast Bulletin

Tut’s tomb reveals all

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RADAR scans have proven there are no hidden rooms inside King Tutankhamu­n’s burial chamber in Egypt, bringing a disappoint­ing end to years of excitement over the prospect.

An Italian team used a ground-penetratin­g radar to study the tomb and found no man-made blocking walls, as had been earlier suspected.

In 2015 British Egyptologi­st Nicholas Reeves proposed that queen Nefertiti’s tomb could be concealed behind wall paintings in the famed boy king’s burial chamber. The idea ignited massive interest.

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