Has Queen Nefertiti been found behind King Tut's tomb?
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Egyptians get more scans of secret rooms behind Tut's tomb
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/198475/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyptians-get-more-scans-of-secret-rooms-behind-Tu.aspx
New scanning needed before opening King Tutankhamun's tomb to find Nefertiti’s remains
http://tass.ru/en/society/866674
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/198475/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyptians-get-more-scans-of-secret-rooms-behind-Tu.aspx
New scanning needed before opening King Tutankhamun's tomb to find Nefertiti’s remains
http://tass.ru/en/society/866674
Laura said:
I actually heard an egyptologist on RT saying that the reason for the slow progress of the operations is because the Egyptian government wants to extend the suspense as long as possible in case nothing revealing is discovered. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
Eulenspiegel
Jedi Master
Doesn't look good so far.
http://www.livescience.com/54708-nefertiti-missing-no-chambers-in-king-tut-tomb.html
This guy again.
http://www.livescience.com/54708-nefertiti-missing-no-chambers-in-king-tut-tomb.html
This guy again.
Egyptology was my second passion after I gave up on my childhood idea to become a paleontologist. For a number of years, in my early teens, I was sort of obsessed with old egypt and tried to study everything about it, that I could get my hands on. At that point everything I read and studied was based on the mainstream Egyptology view of old egypt.
At one point when I was about 14, I went alone to egypt with the local evangelic priest and his study group. I saw many of the major sites there, up and down the Nile. It is impressive, no doubt about that.
The Valley of the Kings is quite astounding too and Tut's grave is one of the smallest there. In retrospect I'm sort of glad that I did not follow through with the idea to become an Egyptologist. Most Egyptologist are very dogmatic (or rather become very dogmatic), righteous "scientists". The sheer number of hard facts they have to ignore, to keep up their mainstream view on egypt, is quite astounding. So I'm happy now that I never went down that road.
At one point during my obsession with egypt, I came across a book that challenged many ideas and facts about it. I read it and was pretty certain that the guy must be making up that stuff, like artifacts that shouldn't be there. So I brushed it aside and only many years later I realized that most of the things he presented there, were indeed real and very challenging to the mainstream view.
Having said that, in Tut's grave you (normal people) can not go into the chamber, where the scans are now being conducted (at least it was like that when I was there).
Recent developments at the chamber are quite interesting. Now they claim that new scans show no hidden chambers:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160509-king-tut-tomb-chambers-radar-archaeology/
http://www.livescience.com/54708-nefertiti-missing-no-chambers-in-king-tut-tomb.html
New "independent" scans have just been conducted and the real experts who conducted the scans now, say they couldn't find anything of what Watanabe claimed he found in his scans.
They say that Watanabe uses old outdated technology and isn't very willing to share how he conducts his research data with other scientists. Watanabe is said to have been "too enthusiastic" about his preliminary results. Watanabe claims that the technology he uses can also sense metallic and organic objects.
On the other hand Izumi Shimada, an anthropologist at Southern Illinois University who worked with Watanabe in the past, said that he has always been a controversial figure in Japan. But further he says this about Watanabe:
So either Watanabe’s results are really over hyped and/or wrong, or the authorities want to control what is going on there. Wouldn't be the first time the high priest of mainstream Egyptology do something like that.
Hawass says this:
These new scans were carried out under the supervision of "National Geographic Society". In the articles above, we can read this interesting bit of information about the society and its agreements with Egypt's antiquities ministry:
For me it looks like something stinks there. The high priests of mainstream history might be afraid what could be discovered there. I could be wrong though.
At one point when I was about 14, I went alone to egypt with the local evangelic priest and his study group. I saw many of the major sites there, up and down the Nile. It is impressive, no doubt about that.
The Valley of the Kings is quite astounding too and Tut's grave is one of the smallest there. In retrospect I'm sort of glad that I did not follow through with the idea to become an Egyptologist. Most Egyptologist are very dogmatic (or rather become very dogmatic), righteous "scientists". The sheer number of hard facts they have to ignore, to keep up their mainstream view on egypt, is quite astounding. So I'm happy now that I never went down that road.
At one point during my obsession with egypt, I came across a book that challenged many ideas and facts about it. I read it and was pretty certain that the guy must be making up that stuff, like artifacts that shouldn't be there. So I brushed it aside and only many years later I realized that most of the things he presented there, were indeed real and very challenging to the mainstream view.
Having said that, in Tut's grave you (normal people) can not go into the chamber, where the scans are now being conducted (at least it was like that when I was there).
Recent developments at the chamber are quite interesting. Now they claim that new scans show no hidden chambers:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160509-king-tut-tomb-chambers-radar-archaeology/
http://www.livescience.com/54708-nefertiti-missing-no-chambers-in-king-tut-tomb.html
New "independent" scans have just been conducted and the real experts who conducted the scans now, say they couldn't find anything of what Watanabe claimed he found in his scans.
They say that Watanabe uses old outdated technology and isn't very willing to share how he conducts his research data with other scientists. Watanabe is said to have been "too enthusiastic" about his preliminary results. Watanabe claims that the technology he uses can also sense metallic and organic objects.
On the other hand Izumi Shimada, an anthropologist at Southern Illinois University who worked with Watanabe in the past, said that he has always been a controversial figure in Japan. But further he says this about Watanabe:
So either Watanabe’s results are really over hyped and/or wrong, or the authorities want to control what is going on there. Wouldn't be the first time the high priest of mainstream Egyptology do something like that.
Hawass says this:
These new scans were carried out under the supervision of "National Geographic Society". In the articles above, we can read this interesting bit of information about the society and its agreements with Egypt's antiquities ministry:
For me it looks like something stinks there. The high priests of mainstream history might be afraid what could be discovered there. I could be wrong though.
Pashalis said:
I wanted to be an archaeologist when I was a kid (thank you Indiana Jones). I agree that the situation is fishy. Egyptologists love to control information in a way that suits they fantasy. Seeing the infamous priest Zahi Hawwass involved in the cover up is not astonishing. If History is already a mess, but Egyptology is as far I can see is an utterly bogus science.
Eulenspiegel
Jedi Master
What makes me suspicious about this is not only the involvement of Hawass, but also the fact they had everyone hyped up about the possibility of two additional chambers and Nefertiti's resting place, and then suddenly take it all back, with statements controlled by non-disclosure agreements...basically saying "nothing to see here folks, move along!"
Some new ground-penetrating radar survey seems to support the possibility of hidden chambers in the Tutankhamun burial chamber, a corridor-like space at least:
www.nature.com
Is this Nefertiti’s tomb? Radar clues reignite debate over hidden chambers
A new survey hints at a previously unknown space beyond Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.
www.nature.com
'Key evidence:' Is Nefertiti hiding behind the Tutankhamun's tomb?
www.express.co.uk
By CALLUM HOARE - Apr 25, 2020
Egypt expert reveals ‘key evidence’ Nefertiti hiding INSIDE KV62
EGYPT archaeologist Chris Naunton has revealed to Express.co.uk that there is a possibility that the famous pharaoh Tutanhkamun's tomb contains a "false wall" before outlining evidence supporting the idea that Queen Nefertiti's tomb could be hiding behind it.
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Apparently, the letter was "found" that confirms that Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure:
www.theguardian.com
Also here on SOTT
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If I remember correctly from the 911 book / SHOTW, weren´t there also some revealing scrolls about the Jews that disappeared too?
I wonder if this new book will talk about that too...
Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure, new evidence suggests
100 years after the discovery of the tomb of the boy king, a previously unpublished letter backs up long-held suspicions
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Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun's treasure following discovery, new evidence reveals -- Sott.net
Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, was long suspected by Egyptians of having helped himself to treasures before the vault was officially opened. But while rumours have swirled for generations, proof has...
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Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure, new evidence suggests
100 years after the discovery of the tomb of the boy king, a previously unpublished letter backs up long-held suspicions
The new evidence about the discovery of the golden coffin came from a member of Carter’s own team. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty
Dalya Alberge
Sat 13 Aug 2022 14.00 BST
Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, was long suspected by Egyptians of having helped himself to treasures before the vault was officially opened. But while rumours have swirled for generations, proof has been hard to come by.
Now an accusation that Carter handled property “undoubtedly stolen from the tomb” has emerged in a previously unpublished letter sent to him in 1934 by an eminent British scholar within his own excavation team.
It was written by Sir Alan Gardiner, a leading philologist. Carter had enlisted Gardiner to translate hieroglyphs found in the 3,300-year-old tomb, and later gave him a “whm amulet”, used for offerings to the dead, assuring him that it had not come from the tomb.
Gardiner showed the amulet to Rex Engelbach, the then British director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and was dismayed to be told that it had indeed come from the tomb as it matched other examples – all made from the same mould.
Firing off a letter to Carter, he enclosed Engelbach’s damning verdict, which reads: “The whm amulet you showed me has been undoubtedly stolen from the tomb of Tutankhamun.”
Gardiner told Carter: “I deeply regret having been placed in so awkward a position.”
But he added: “I naturally did not tell Engelbach that I obtained the amulet from you.”
The letters, now in a private collection, will be published in a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World
Its author, Bob Brier, a leading Egyptologist at Long Island University, told the Observer that suspicions about Carter helping himself to treasures have long been rumoured: “But now there’s no doubt about it.”
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery by Carter and his financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, of the tomb of the boy king, filled with thrones, chariots and thousands of objects needed in the next world. Over the next decade, Carter supervised their removal and transportation down the Nile to Cairo to be displayed in the Egyptian Museum.
Howard Carter at the entrance to an Egyptian archaeological site in 1923. ( Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Some Egyptologists have challenged Carter’s claim that the tomb’s treasures had been looted in antique times. In 1947, in an obscure scientific journal in Cairo, Alfred Lucas, one of Carter’s employees, reported that Carter secretly broke open the door to the burial chamber himself, before appearing to reseal it and cover the opening.
Brier said: “They were suspected of having broken into the tomb before its official opening, taking out artefacts, including jewellery, sold after their respective deaths. It’s been known that Carter somehow had items, and people have suspected that he might have helped himself, but these letters are dead proof.
“He certainly never admitted it. We don’t have any official denial. But he was locked out of the tomb for a while by the Egyptian government. There was a lot of bad feeling, and they thought he was stealing things.”
In his book, he writes that the Egyptians were unable to prove their suspicions and were convinced, for example, that Carter had been planning to steal a wooden head of Tutankhamun found in his possession: “The Egyptian authorities had entered and inspected Tomb No. 4, which Carter and the team had used for storage of antiquities, and discovered a beautiful lifesize wooden head of Tutankhamun as a youth.
“It had been packed in a Fortnum & Mason crate but it had never been mentioned in Carter’s records of the finds, nor in the volume describing the contents of the antechamber…. Carter argued that it had simply been discovered in the rubble in the descending passage.”
Brier said: “Later, we do find objects on the Egyptian antiquities market from his estate that clearly came from the tomb.”
Some entered museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which announced in 2010 that it would send back to Egypt 19 objects it acquired between the 1920s and 1940s as they “can be attributed with certainty to Tutankhamun’s tomb”.
In his 1992 book on Carter, the late Harry James drew on Carter letters in the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford, which refer to a row with Gardiner that led to an amulet’s return to Cairo.
The significance of the previously unpublished correspondence is that the accusation came from a leading expert who was actually involved in the first excavation.
Carter would have struggled to challenge Engelbach, who had “too much authority and really knew his stuff”, Brier said.
If I remember correctly from the 911 book / SHOTW, weren´t there also some revealing scrolls about the Jews that disappeared too?
I wonder if this new book will talk about that too...