Egyptology is entering another golden age,with dazzling new discoveries of hidden chambers under the Pyramids and in Tutankhamun’s tomb. A cynic could nearly say it’s hype for the desperate tourist industryEgypt never seems to halt revealing its ancient wonders and mysteries. Now, it seems we may be on edge of new discoveries as marvellous as when Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
The most astonishing claims being made concern that very tomb. The “wonders” of the young king’s burial are exhibited nowadays in Cairo. Yet it seems that Carter may fill missed something potentially just as extraordinary, or right in front of him. The dazzle of Tutankhamun’s gold probably satisfied the tomb’s discoverers – and besides,it has taken 21st-century technology to find the new mystery: traces of what may be well-hidden and still unopened chambers behind the tomb of the boy king. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com