In 2015 a British Egyptologist said he found evidence of a hidden chamber behind King Tutankhamun’s lavish tomb. Archaeologists have now started what they hope are decisive scans. Archaeologists have started “decisive” radar scans in King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in the search for hidden chambers, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry said Thursday. Researchers are using ground-penetrating radar to hopefully verify the presence of empty spaces or corridors behind the walls of the pharaoh’s burial chamber. The young pharaoh was buried inside a tomb known as KV62 in the Valley of the Kings near the modern city of Luxor.

Source: Egypt Independent February 01, 2018 23:37 UTC