Ground-penetrating radar is notoriously difficult to use on the rock in the Valley of the Kings. Now his analysis of those scans is complete, and they suggest that there might be other chambers, possibly containing burials, hidden behind the walls of the boy king’s tomb. In November 2015 radar specialist Hirokatsu Watanabe conducted a series of ground-penetrating radar scans. In the past 10 years two more chambers have come to light: one is a storage area for coffins and burial supplies, the other contains the mummy of a woman who was a singer at the Temple of Karnak. But Tut’s tomb was not, in fact, the last secret the valley held.
Untouched by looters before its discovery, the tomb’s dazzling golden artifacts captured the public’s imagination and made him one of Egypt’s most famous and intensively studied mummies. Tut ruled Egypt for only a decade, from 1332 to 1322 B.C., and died around age 19. Archaeologists thought the last burial chamber in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings had been discovered even before Howard Carter opened the unsullied tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922.
