http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/17/scans-king-tuts-tomb-find-hidden-rooms/81902976/Scans have found that two hidden rooms are believed to lie behind the walls of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, Egypt’s antiquities minister said Thursday.
Mamdouh el-Damaty told a news conference in Cairo that scans analyzed by a Japanese team showed the hidden rooms could contain metal or organic material.
“It could be the discovery of the century,” he said. “It is very important for Egyptian history and for all of the world.”
Ahram Online said its reporter asked el-Damaty if the organic material could be a mummy.
"Until now, I cannot be sure what these organic materials could be. It could be a mummy, a sarcophagus or anything. I cannot tell,” he responded, according to the website.
He said the scans suggested that empty spaces behind the walls of the 3,300-year-old tomb could be the burial chamber of Tutankhamun’s sister Merit aatun, his mother Kia, or his grandmother, Tiye, but not Queen Nefertiti, Ahram Online reported.
In August, Nicholas Reeves, an Egyptologist with the University of Arizona, published a paper that suggested that Nefertiti's tomb might be hidden in a passageway behind Tutankhamun's tomb.
Archeologists discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922 but archaeologists have been unable to find Nefertiti's final resting place.
