Could King Tut’s Tomb Be Hiding an Ancient Queen?

Photo: The iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany – January 14, 2009. Photo credit: Paul Mannix via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Margherita Bassi. Gizmodo – September 18, 2026. Research article: Nature.

When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, he found over six hundred artifacts buried alongside the ancient Egyptian ruler. But now it seems that both the pharaoh and his treasure may have been squatting in someone else’s burial. In 2015, Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves suggested that Tutankhamun’s tomb might be bigger than it appears to be. Specifically, that there are additional secret chambers hiding the tomb of Nefertiti, one of the most famous women from ancient Egypt. In a study published yesterday in the Occasional Papers of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, […]

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