The tomb of Nefertiti would not be behind that of Tutakamón according to a new study

A team of Italian scientists has ruled out that there were hidden cameras in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun , a possibility that had generated great expectation in recent years among Egyptologists, official sources reported today. The team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of Turin , led by Dr. Francesco Porcelli, used a precision radar that manages to explore the rock, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities in a statement.

The evidence shows that there are no discontinuities in the wall of the tomb , since the transition from natural rock to the ashlars that make up the walls of the grave has been identified . There is also no evidence of the existence of jambs or lintels of doors , or "flat reflectors", which could indicate the existence of walls of a funeral chamber or empty areas hidden behind the frescoes that adorn the walls of the tomb.

Porcelli affirmed that the tests are "conclusive" and can be discarded "with a very high degree of confidence" the hypothesis of the existence of hidden chambers or corridors adjacent to the tomb. This is the third radar study conducted in recent years and has been conducted to the controversy generated by the contradictory results of the first two, made by a Japanese team and another American.

These studies have been made to confirm the hypothesis formulated in 2015 by the British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves , who suggested that the tomb of Queen Nefertiti could be hidden behind the north and west wallsof Tutankhamun's burial chamber, who reigned between 1332 and approximately 1323 BC. Reeves interpreted that a crack in the northern wall of the "Pharaoh's child" sepulcher was a sealed door , leading to a possible hidden camera.

The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun , of the XVIII dynasty, astonished the whole world in 1922 , because it was the first burial of a pharaoh that was discovered intact , since all the others had been plundered to a greater or lesser extent centuries ago.

The tomb of Tutankhamun is in the so-called Valley of the Kings , a regular burial place for the pharaohs in the then Egyptian capital, the ancient Thebes and present-day city of Luxor, in the south of the country.