You have certainly heard about the terrible curse associated with Tutankhamun's tomb, right? But, had you ever heard about the possible existence of a secret chamber inside the tomb of the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt? This chat came about in 2015, after a British Egyptologist named Nicholas Reeves presented a very interesting theory involving the burial of the young king.

Tutankhamun's tomb when it was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922

Tutankhamun died unexpectedly at age 19 some 3, 400 years ago and had to be hastily buried in the Valley of the Kings - in a tomb considered small for a pharaoh, situated at a remote site in the necropolis. For, according to Rossella Lorenzi of the Seeker portal, Reeves proposed that because Tut's tomb was not ready when he died, the young king's body was placed in the tomb that originally belonged to Nefertiti.

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Queen Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton, Tutankhamun's father. She passed away 10 years before young Tut, and her tomb was never discovered. Reeves believes that, in fact, what happened was that the place where the sovereign's body was sealed and that Tutankhamun was accommodated in a corridor leading to the queen's grave - so even though her tomb was never found, she has always been hidden under everyone's nose.

The famous Queen Nefertiti

According to Rossella, when this theory was proposed, a Japanese radar expert named Hirokatsu Watanabu even conducted studies inside Tutankhamun's tomb, and his analysis found that there was a 90 percent chance that the site held two chambers, one on the north wall. and the other on the east wall.

In the above scheme, the supposed cameras are indicated in blue

Of course, the announcement of the possible discovery of these chambers caused a stir among archaeologists and Egyptologists around the world. However, a new analysis, this time conducted by the National Geographic Society, did not show the same results by Watanabu, and Reeves's theory lost credibility.

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Now scientists from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, have announced that they will conduct further studies at Tutankhamun's tomb - the most thorough and detailed investigation ever conducted inside the young pharaoh's burial chamber. As they explained, they will scan the tomb and its surroundings with three advanced radar systems that employ frequencies ranging from 200 MHz to 2 GHz.

Image taken during survey conducted by National Geographic Society personnel

In addition to the radar system, the team will employ electrical resistance tomography and magnetic induction technologies and thus penetrate to near ten meters deep to conduct the scans. Interestingly, the initiative is part of a project that aims to perform the geophysical mapping of the Valley of the Kings and, therefore, there is the possibility that chambers and tombs buried for millennia are discovered.