On the 17th of September 2026, a short news report appeared in the journal Nature.
It described a new study of a tomb that has been examined more closely than almost any other on Earth.
A tomb that was opened more than a century ago, emptied, [music] cataloged, photographed, filmed, scanned, visited by millions of people, the tomb of Tuton Kamoon.
And the study said something that should be impossible for a place this famous.
That beyond its painted walls, there may be more.
Not just a gap, not just a crack in the rock.
The researchers argued that their data pointed toward a hidden complex, corridors and rooms sealed away in the limestone that may be older than Tutenkum’s burial itself.
And one of those possible rooms, they said, [music] might not be empty.
I’ve watched the story of hidden chambers in Tuton Kamoon’s tomb rise and fall for more than a decade.
I’ve seen the headlines.
I’ve seen the excitement.
I’ve seen the scans that seem to prove everything and the scans that seemed to prove nothing.
And I’ll be honest with you, when I first saw this new report, my reaction was, “Not again.”
But then I read it properly and I realized this wasn’t just another radar scan.
It was something different, a different method, a different kind of evidence, and a different idea about what exactly might be hidden in the rock.
The deeper I went, the more I understood that the real mystery of Tuton Kamoon’s tomb isn’t whether there’s a secret room.
It’s why this tomb was ever so strange in the first place.
Let’s go back to the beginning.
On the 4th of November 1922 in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile opposite modern Luxor, a water boy working for the British archaeologist Howard Carter is said to have uncovered a step cut into the rock.
It was the first step of a staircase leading down into the ground.
Carter had been searching the valley for years.
His patron, Lord Carnavan, was running out of patience and money.
This was supposed to be their final season.
The staircase led down to a sealed doorway.
Beyond it, a corridor filled with rubble, and at the end of that corridor, another sealed door.
On the 26th of November, Carter made a small hole in the top of that door and held up a candle.
Konavan, standing behind him, asked if he could see anything.
Carter’s reply has become one of the most famous lines in archaeology.
He said he could see wonderful things.
What he was seeing was the anti-chamber of the tomb of Tuton Kammoon.
A room packed with gilded furniture, chariots, [music] statues, chests, and objects of every kind piled up in the darkness where they had been left more than 3,000 years earlier.
The tomb became known as KV62, the 62nd tomb recorded in the Valley of the Kings.
And it was and still is the most intact royal tomb ever found in Egypt.
Within months, Lord Carnavan was dead after an infected mosquito bite.
Newspapers seized on the idea of a pharaoh’s curse, and the story has never gone away.
But most of the people who entered the tomb lived normal lives.
Carter himself lived until 1939.
The real legacy of KV62 wasn’t a curse.
It was an assumption that because this tomb had been found and emptied, it had also been understood.
Over the following years, Carter and his team found an annex, a small side room crammed with more objects.
They found the burial chamber almost entirely filled by a series of gilded wooden shrines nested inside one another.
Inside those shrines was a stone sarcophagus.
Inside that, three coffins, one inside the other, the innermost made of solid gold.
And inside that, the mummy of the king wearing the golden mask that has become the most famous face of ancient Egypt.
Beyond the burial chamber, there was one more room which Carter called the treasury.
It held the king’s canopic shrine, more chests, model boats, and a statue of the jackal god Anubis guarding the doorway.
It took Carter and his team around 10 years to clear the tomb.
More than 5,000 objects were recorded, and when they were done, it seemed that the story of KV62 was complete.
Four rooms, one king.
Case [music] closed.
But there was something about this tomb that never quite made sense.
And it was right there from the start.
It was small.
That might sound strange given how much was inside it.
But the problem isn’t the treasure.
The problem is the architecture.
The great royal tombs of the new kingdom in the Valley of the Kings are often enormous.
Long sloping corridors cut deep into the hillside.
Pillared halls, multiple chambers, wall after wall of painted and carved religious texts guiding the king through the underworld.
KV62 is nothing like that.
It’s compact.
The corridor is short.
The rooms are cramped.
Only one room, the burial chamber, is decorated at all.
And the objects inside were crammed in so tightly that some of them had to be taken apart to fit.
For a pharaoh of Egypt, this was a very modest tomb.
The usual explanation is simple.
Tuten Kimmoon died young.
He was probably around 18 or 19 years old.
He had ruled for only about 10 years.
There may not have been time to finish a proper royal tomb.
So, he was buried quickly in a smaller tomb that was available, perhaps one originally intended for someone of lower rank.
That explanation is reasonable.
Many Egyptologists still accept a version of it.
But in 2015, a British Egyptologist named Nicholas Reeves looked at KV62 and proposed something far more dramatic.
He suggested that the tomb wasn’t small at all.
He suggested that we had only ever seen part of it.
To understand Reeves’s idea, you need to know something about the world Tuten Kamoon was born into.
Tuten Kamoon was a child of one of the most turbulent periods in Egyptian history.
His father was most likely the pharaoh Akenatan.
Akenatan is remembered as the king who tried to transform Egyptian religion.
He turned away from the traditional gods and elevated a single deity, the Aten, the disc of the sun.
He built a new capital city in the desert at a place we now call Amana.
And at his side was his great royal wife, Nefertiti.
You’ve almost certainly seen her face.
Her painted limestone bust discovered at Amana in 1912 and now in a museum in Berlin, is one of the most famous works of art in the world.
In the art of Akenatan’s reign, Nefertiti appears remarkably often and remarkably prominently.
She’s shown taking part in religious rituals.
She’s shown in poses usually reserved for kings.
She’s shown smiting enemies.
And then at a certain point in Akenatan’s reign, she seems to fade from the record.
For a long time, some scholars assume she had died or fallen from favor.
But in 2012, an inscription was identified at a quarry in Middle Egypt that mentions Nefertiti as great royal wife in the 16th year of Akenatan’s reign, very close to the end of it.
So, she was still alive and still queen near the end of her husband’s rule.
What happened next is one of the great puzzles of Egyptology.
After Akenatan’s death and before Tutenkmoon took the throne, the records point to one or more short-lived rulers.
One of them is known by the name Nefane Nefaruatan.
And this ruler appears to have been a woman.
Many Egyptologists believe that Nefanuatan was Nefertiti herself.
That after her husband’s death or perhaps even before it as co-ruler, she took on the full titles of a pharaoh and ruled Egypt in her own right before Tutenkmoon came to the throne as a child.
Not everyone agrees, but it’s a serious and widely discussed possibility.
And here’s what makes it matter for our story.
Nefertiti’s tomb has never been found.
Neither has her mummy, one of the most famous women of the ancient world, a queen and possibly a pharaoh.
And we have no idea where she was buried.
Reeves’ theory started from that gap.
It didn’t start with a radar scan.
That’s important.
A lot of people remember this story as radar found Nefertiti.
That’s not how it began.
It began with the walls.
In 2014, a specialist company called Factum Artee made extremely highresolution scans of the painted walls of Tutankamoon’s burial chamber.
The purpose was to create a perfect faximile of the tomb.
A replica that visitors could explore without damaging the original.
When Reeves studied those scans, he noticed something on the north wall and the west wall of the burial chamber beneath the paint and plaster.
He saw what he interpreted as straight lines, faint traces that to his eye looked like the outlines of doorways blocked, plastered over, and painted so that they became invisible.
Now, this wasn’t a crazy idea.
Ancient Egyptian tomb builders did sometimes build false walls and block doorways were plastered and painted over as part of the ceiling of tombs.
In Tuton Kamoon’s own tomb, the entrances to the burial chamber had been sealed with blocking walls that Carter had to break through.
So Reeves asked a question.
What if the north wall of the burial chamber isn’t solid rock?
What if it’s a partition hiding a doorway?
And what if the burial chamber isn’t the end of the tomb at all, but a room partway along a much larger tomb.
And then he looked at the painting on that north wall.
It shows Toutin Kimmoon’s successor, an elderly official turned king named I performing a ritual called the opening of the mouth on the mummy of Tuten Kamoon.
This ritual was performed by the heir.
It was a way of showing who had the right to succeed the dead king.
Reeves argued that if you look closely at the faces in that scene, there are signs that the painting may originally have shown something else.
He suggested that the figure now identified as a may once have been Tutenkoon himself and that the mummy being prepared may once have been Nefertiti.
In other words, in Reeves’ reading, this was originally a scene of Tutenkmoon burying Nefertiti.
It was later reworked to show a burying Tuten Kamoon.
That’s a bold interpretation.
Many Egyptologists are unconvinced by it, but put it together with the lines on the walls and the small size of the tomb, and you get Reeves’s full hypothesis.
KV62 was originally built as the tomb of Nefertiti.
When Tuten Kamoon died unexpectedly, the outer part of her tomb was adapted and enlarged to receive him.
His burial was placed in the rooms closest to the entrance, and the deeper parts where Nefertiti lay was sealed off behind a wall and painted over.
If Reeves was right, then the most famous tomb in the world was in fact the front half of someone else’s.
And the queen, who has been missing for more than 3,000 years, might be lying just a few meters away from the boy king, behind a painted wall.
It’s an extraordinary idea.
There’s another piece of evidence that gives it more weight than you might expect.
Many of the objects found in Tutenkmoon’s tomb weren’t originally made for him.
This isn’t controversial.
It’s widely accepted by Egyptologists.
Some of the burial equipment shows signs of having been altered.
[music] Names have been changed.
Cartes, the oval frames that contain royal names, show traces of earlier names underneath.
Some of the objects appear to have been originally made for Nefanfuetan, [music] the mysterious ruler who came before Tutankamun.
Reeves has gone further and argued that even the famous golden mask may originally have been made for someone else with Tuton Kamun’s face added to it.
That specific claim is debated, [music] but the broader point stands.
Tuten Camun was buried, at least in part, with objects that had been made for his predecessor.
So why would a king be buried with someone else’s things?
Perhaps because his death was sudden and the workshops had to use what was available.
Or perhaps if you follow Reeves, because he was buried in someone else’s tomb.
Either way, it tells us something important.
Tuten Kamoon’s burial was not a clean, planned, purpose-built event.
It was at least partly improvised.
[music] And once you know that, the question of what else was improvised becomes very interesting.
Reeves published his hypothesis in 2015.
And almost immediately, people wanted to test it.
The obvious way to test it without damaging the tomb was to look through the walls.
And the tool chosen for that was ground penetrating radar.
Radar works by sending pulses of radio waves into a material and recording what bounces back.
When the waves hit a boundary, a change from rock to air, say, or from one kind of material to another, some of the energy reflects.
By analyzing those reflections, you can build up a picture of what’s behind a surface.
In late 2015, a Japanese radar specialist named Hiokatsu Watanab scanned the walls of the burial chamber.
The results caused a sensation.
The scans were interpreted as showing empty spaces behind the north and west walls and signs of what might be organic and metal materials.
Egypt’s antiquities minister at the time, Mambdu Elderati, spoke publicly about a very high likelihood that something was there.
Headlines around the world announced that Nefertiti’s tomb might have been found.
It felt like we were on the edge of the biggest discovery in Egyptology since 1922.
And then the evidence began to collapse.
In 2016, a second radar survey was carried out.
This time with support from the National Geographic Society.
It didn’t reproduce the results of the first scan.
The team didn’t find the clear voids that the earlier survey had reported.
The data was ambiguous at best, and the disagreement between the two sets of results started a fierce argument among geoysicists and Egyptologists.
How could two radar surveys of the same walls give such different answers?
So in 2018, a third survey was organized.
This one was carried out by a team led from the Polytenic University of Turin in Italy.
And they were determined to be thorough.
They used multiple radar systems at different frequencies.
They took dense measurements covering the walls in detail.
They processed the data carefully and they concluded that there was no evidence of hidden chambers or artificial blocking walls immediately adjacent to the burial chamber.
Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announced the result.
And for many people, that was the end of the story.
The hidden chambers didn’t exist, but the 2018 team also suggested something fascinating about why the first scan might have got it wrong.
They proposed that some of the signals interpreted as hidden spaces could have been what are sometimes called ghost signals, artifacts produced by the radar itself.
Remember, radar is bouncing waves off boundaries.
Inside the burial chamber of KV62, there are painted plaster surfaces, natural variations and fractures in the rock, and a massive stone sarcophagus sitting right in the middle of the room.
Any of those can produce reflections.
And in a small enclosed space, reflections can bounce around and create patterns that look like something they’re not.
In other words, the first scan might have been seeing things, not because anyone was lying, but because the tool itself in that particular environment might have produced a mirage.
This is one of the most important ideas in this whole story, and it’s something that almost never makes it into the popular version.
When archaeologists look underground without digging, they aren’t seeing the thing itself.
They’re seeing data, reflections, measurements, and that data has to be interpreted.
Two experts can look at the same data and see two different things.
A real room and an echo can look surprisingly alike.
So by 2018, the hidden chambers seemed to be dead.
An exciting idea that had been tested and by the most thorough survey yet, rejected, except that it didn’t stay dead.
In 2020, Nature reported on another radar survey carried out by a different team.
And that team said their data showed possible evidence of a previously unknown space near Tutankoon’s tomb.
Not the dramatic chamber right behind the wall that the first scan had claimed, something else further away.
So now we had a sequence that looked something like this.
2015, radar suggests hidden spaces.
Worldwide excitement.
2016.
Radar can’t reproduce it.
Doubts.
2018.
The most thorough radar survey yet finds no chambers immediately beside the tomb.
The idea appears finished.
2020.
Another survey suggests there may be a space after all.
One result might be a fluke, but this was a pattern.
Every time the idea seemed to die, something brought it back.
And I started to wonder whether everyone had been asking slightly the wrong question.
Which brings us to 2026.
The new study was led by Mambdu Elder Mati, the same archaeologist who as antiquities minister had spoken so hopefully about the first scan back in 2015.
He’s now at Ain Shams University in Cairo.
His co-authors include a geoysicist Abbas Muhammad Abbas, a structural engineer and geoysics consultant named George Ballard, and Nicholas Reeves himself.
So before we go any further, let’s be clear about something.
This isn’t an independent team with no stake in the outcome.
The man who proposed the hypothesis in 2015 is one of the authors.
That doesn’t make the work wrong.
But it’s something a careful viewer should know.
According to the report, in Nature, the team did several things differently this time.
First, they carried out new radar scans from inside the tomb, and Ballard went back through the data from the earlier surveys as well, reanalyzing everything he could.
Second, and this is the really new part, they carried out a microgravity survey.
Microgravity is a very different technique from radar.
It doesn’t send anything into the ground.
Instead, it measures tiny variations in the pull of the Earth’s gravity at different points on the surface.
That sounds like science fiction, but the principle is simple.
Solid rock is dense.
Empty space or loose rubble is less dense.
If there’s a cavity underground, the pull of gravity directly above it will be very, very slightly weaker than above solid rock.
The differences are tiny, but sensitive instruments can detect them.
According to the report, the team took more than,200 gravity readings across an area of around 35 square meters over and around the tomb.
It’s reported as the first time this kind of gravitational technique has been used to probe the ground around KV62.
Third, they brought in data from another method, electrical resistivity tomography [music] collected by an earlier team in 2017.
That technique maps how easily electricity flows through the ground, which also changes depending on what’s there.
At the time, some anomalies in that earlier data had been dismissed as unrelated to KV62.
The new team argues that those anomalies sit in locations that match their own.
And when they put all of this together, here’s what they say they found.
First, a corridor.
Ballard argues that the data shows a passage around 2 m wide leading away from the burial chamber and packed with rubble.
Rubble, not empty air.
And that detail, he suggests might explain everything that went wrong before.
Remember what the earlier radar surveys were looking for?
A large empty chamber immediately behind the wall.
That’s what the 2015 scan was interpreted as showing.
That’s what the 2016 and 2018 surveys searched for.
And didn’t find.
But what if there was never a big empty room directly behind the wall?
What if what’s there is a corridor filled with stone debris?
The way the entrance corridor of Tuton Kamoon’s own tomb was filled with rubble when Carter found it.
A corridor full of rubble would look very different to Radar than an empty chamber.
It could be easy to miss if you were looking for the wrong thing.
In other words, the argument is that everyone was looking for a hole and what might actually be there is a filled passage.
Second, the gravity data.
According to Ballard, the microgravity readings show low density structures with right angles.
Structures that, as he describes them, run parallel to the north wall of the burial chamber.
Right angles matter.
Nature doesn’t usually make perfect right angles in limestone.
People do.
If the low density zones really are rectangular and aligned with the tomb that points towards something man-made.
And there’s one feature in the gravity data that has drawn particular attention.
It’s been labeled anomaly 7.
It’s described as a mostly low density area suggesting an open or loosely filled space with a roughly square zone of higher density inside it.
Ballard has suggested that this could be a chamber containing objects.
Stop and think about that for a moment.
A room with something solid inside it.
But he also said something that’s just as important and that you won’t see in most of the headlines.
He admitted that he is looking at the very limits of detection.
That’s the honest position.
This is a signal at the edge of what the technology can see.
There’s also a possible room to the west of the burial chamber, but the signal there is complicated because another tomb lies nearby and its own effect on gravity makes the reading harder to interpret.
And then there’s one more detail that I find genuinely haunting.
According to the report, the proposed chambers don’t appear to connect to any other entrance.
If they exist, and if that’s right, it would suggest that nobody has entered them since ancient times.
Not tomb robbers, not later priests, not Carter, nobody.
Now, here’s where I want to slow down because this is the point where it would be very easy to get carried away.
The new study hasn’t found Nefertiti.
It hasn’t opened a chamber.
It hasn’t found a mummy.
It hasn’t found treasure.
No one has seen inside any of these proposed spaces.
What it has done is present geohysical evidence that the authors believe points to a hidden complex of corridors and rooms.
And they believe that complex predates the burial of Tuton Kamoon.
Other experts are interested but cautious.
One radar specialist quoted in the Nature Report called the work fascinating, but said it doesn’t provide enough information to draw firm conclusions and described himself as feeling ambivalent.
Another geoysicist said that from the gravity data, the presence of chambers looks plausible, but that he would like to see more detail.
And that’s a real problem at the moment.
According to the report, Ballard said he doesn’t yet have permission from the Egyptian authorities to release all of the data.
So, independent experts can’t yet fully check the work.
That’s not a conspiracy.
Access to data from sites like the Valley of the Kings is controlled by the Egyptian authorities and permissions take time.
But it does mean that right now we’re relying heavily on the interpretation of the team itself.
So here’s where we actually are.
On one side, the most thorough radar survey of the walls in 2018 found no evidence of chambers immediately beside the burial chamber.
On the other side, a new combination of methods, including the first microgravity survey of the site, suggests there may be a rubble-filled corridor and rectalinear lowdensity spaces a few meters away.
Those two [music] things aren’t necessarily contradictory.
The 2018 survey was looking for a void right behind the wall.
The 2026 study describes something different, a filled corridor, spaces a little further out.
It’s possible both teams are right about what they measured.
And it’s possible that one of them has misread the data.
We don’t know yet.
And that’s what makes this moment so extraordinary.
Because for the first time in this whole long story, there’s a real chance that we might find out.
According to the Nature Report, the decision about whether to investigate the proposed chambers now rests with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
And if it’s approved, Ballard said the plan would be to drill carefully from outside the tomb and send in miniature robotic vehicles equipped with cameras, small tractors that could travel into a narrow bore hole and look around.
He said that work could begin as early as November.
At the time I’m recording this, that decision hasn’t been announced.
So think about where we are.
For more than 10 years, this has been a story about interpreting shadows, radar echoes, density readings, lines under paint.
And now, perhaps within months, someone might push a camera through the rock and simply look.
If they see solid rock, the story ends.
The hidden complex was a mirage in the data, like the ghost signals of 2015.
If they see rubble, that would tell us something, but not everything.
And if they see a room with something inside it, then the history of the Valley of the Kings will need to be rewritten.
Either way, it will be an answer.
But here’s the thing I keep coming back to.
Even if the chambers are real, that doesn’t automatically mean Nefertiti is in them.
This is the part of the story that I think gets lost in every headline.
If there is a hidden complex beyond KV62, there are several very different things it could be.
It could be an earlier royal tomb as Reeves proposes with Tutankamoon’s burial inserted into its outer section.
It could be an unfinished tomb abandoned partway through construction and later sealed.
It could be a tomb for someone else entirely, another member of the royal family from that turbulent period.
There are several candidates whose burials have never been securely identified.
It could be a series of storage spaces or later modifications.
It could be something unrelated to Tutonkamoon altogether, which happens to be close to his tomb.
The geoysics can’t tell us which of these it is.
It can only suggest that something may be there.
So the question isn’t really is Nefertiti behind the wall.
The real question is what was this place before Tuton Kamoon ever entered the story?
And that’s a much bigger question because the Valley of the Kings has always been a layered landscape.
Tombs were cut into the hillsides over hundreds of years.
Some were finished, some were abandoned, some were reused, some were broken into by later tomb builders who accidentally tunnneled into older tombs.
Tutenkmoon’s tomb itself is part of that pattern.
It was robbed at least twice shortly after his burial.
Thieves broke in, took what they could carry, and were apparently interrupted.
The tomb was resealed, and then it was forgotten.
About two centuries later, workers cutting the tomb of the pharaoh Rammeses V 6th just above and beside Ki 62 built huts for themselves on the ground over its entrance.
Their huts and the debris from their work covered the staircase leading down to Tuton Kamoon.
That’s one of the main reasons the tomb survived.
Later, Egyptians built right over it without knowing it was there.
When Carter found the first step in 1922, he was digging beneath the remains of those workmen’s huts.
So KV62 was hidden once already, [music] not by a conspiracy, by later construction piled on top of it.
And the valley hasn’t finished revealing itself.
In 2006, archaeologists discovered a previously unknown chamber just a few meters from Tuton Kamoon’s tomb.
It was designated KV63.
It wasn’t a burial.
It contained coffins and storage jars filled with embarmming materials, possibly connected to burials from the same era.
It was the first new tomb found in the Valley of the Kings since Carter’s discovery in 1922.
More than 80 years after the most famous excavation in history in one of the most intensely studied patches of ground on Earth, a completely unknown chamber was sitting a stone’s throwaway.
So when people say that there couldn’t possibly be anything left to find next to Tutenkun, the history of the valley itself says otherwise.
There’s another idea buried in all of this that I find more interesting than treasure.
Suppose the new study is right and there is a complex of corridors and chambers that existed before Tutankamoon’s burial.
Suppose when they finally look inside, there’s no queen, no gold, just an empty, unfinished set of rooms abandoned partway through and sealed off.
A lot of people would call that a disappointment.
I wouldn’t because that alone would tell us something extraordinary about how royal tombs were planned, changed, and reused at the end of one of the most chaotic periods in Egyptian history.
It would explain at last why KV62 looks the way it does, why it’s so small, why its layout is so unusual, why the burial chambers walls might show signs of reworking.
It would turn Toutin Kimmoon’s tomb from a strange cramped exception into one piece of a larger plan that was abandoned or repurposed after his death.
That’s the idea of an architectural ghost.
A tomb that was meant to be one thing and became another with its original design still hidden in the rock around it.
And if there is someone there, if a royal burial of that era is found sealed and untouched, then it wouldn’t just change our picture of Tutin Kimmoon.
It would change our picture of the whole end of the Ammana period.
Who ruled?
Who was buried where?
What happened to the family of Akenatan after the religious revolution collapsed?
And yes, possibly what happened to Nefertiti.
That’s why this matters.
Not because of gold, because of the questions it could answer.
So, let’s bring it all together.
In 1922, Howard Carter found the most complete royal tomb ever discovered in Egypt.
Four rooms, thousands of objects, a boy king in a golden mask.
And from the start, that tomb was strange, small, hastily prepared, filled with objects that had been made for someone else.
In 2015, Nicholas Reeves proposed that KV62 was only part of a larger tomb originally built for Nefertiti with her burial hidden behind the painted north wall.
The first radar scan seemed to confirm it.
The second couldn’t reproduce it.
The third, the most thorough, [music] found nothing immediately behind the walls and raised the possibility that the first scan had been fooled by ghost signals.
Then in 2020, another survey reopened the question.
And now in 2026, a new study combining radar, the first microgravity survey of the site, earlier resistivity data, and analysis of the tomb’s structure, argues for a hidden complex of corridors and rooms possibly predating Tuton Cameon with a rubble-filled corridor leading away from the burial chamber and one intriguing anomaly that might be a chamber containing objects.
Other experts are intrigued, but cautious.
Not all the data has been released, and the decision about whether to drill and look now rests with Egypt’s antiquities authorities.
That’s what’s behind King Tut’s tomb right now.
Not a confirmed discovery.
A question that has refused to die for more than a decade, and it may be about to get an answer.
I keep thinking about that moment in 1922 when Carter held up his candle and looked through a small hole into the dark.
He had no idea what was there.
He was guessing, hoping.
For years, people had told him there was nothing left to find in the Valley of the Kings.
He saw wonderful things.
Now, more than a century later, people are preparing perhaps to do the same thing again.
Not with a candle, with a camera on a tiny robotic tractor pushed through a bore hole in the rock.
And just like Carter, they don’t know what they’ll see.
So, here are the questions I can’t stop asking.
Why was Tuten Kimmoon’s tomb so small?
Why were so many of his burial objects made for someone else?
What are the lines beneath the paint on the north wall?
Were the first radar signals real or ghosts?
Why did the most thorough radar survey find nothing when others found something?
Is there really a corridor packed with rubble leading away from the burial chamber?
What is anomaly 7?
And if something is there, sealed since ancient times, who put it there, and who were they hiding?
I don’t know the answers.
Nobody does yet.
But for the first time in a long time, I think we might be close to finding out.
If there’s a detail about Tutin Kimmoon’s tomb that you think everyone overlooks, or if you’ve got a theory about what’s behind that north wall, leave it in the comments.
And if the cameras do go in, I’ll be watching.
Because after more than 3,000 years and more than a century of searching, it would be something to finally see what’s on the other
