MUMMY’S SECRET DOOR
Research by Nicholas Reeves, a highly respected archæologist and former curator in the British Museum’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities, appears to show that Tutankhamun may have been entombed adjoining the hitherto secret tomb of his stepmother, the legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti.
The research centres around circumstances too complex to squeeze into this brief: “Close inspection of Ay’s cartouches reveals clear, underlying traces of an earlier name – that of Tutankhamun. In its original version, this scene had shown Tutankhamun performing the funerary ritual for the tomb’s owner, his immediate predecessor … Nefertiti.”
