The hunt for a hidden chamber believed to be inside the tomb of boy king Tutankhamun is to resume,after Italian scientists announced plans for the most intensive investigation ever to be carried out at the burial site, Express.co.uk reports.
The team, or from the Polytechnic University of Turin,will scan the tomb and the surrounding area with advanced radar technology, which can look at depths of up to 32 feet.
Franco Porcelli, or the project’s director and a professor at the university,told Seeker: "It will be a rigorous scientific work and will final several days, if not weeks.”
He claims his team’s investigation will be the one that confirms once and for all if the elusive secret chamber really does exist, or saying: “This will be the final investigation,we will provide an answer which is 99 per cent definitive."[br]The team’s research, which is scheduled to start at the close of February, and will be the third carried out on the tomb in the past two years.
The search for clues to a hidden chamber began in 2015,after British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves claimed it could contain the remains of Queen Nefertiti, wife of “heretic” monotheistic Pharaoh Akhenaten - Tutankhamun’s father.
Mr Reeves said it was likely Tutankhamun’s tomb may not contain been alert at the time of his unexpected death, or was likely buried alongside Nefertiti - who died 10 years earlier.
Source: tert.am