This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and, even after all this time, the famous burial site is still revealing its secrets and stirring up controversy.
A renowned British Egyptologist and former British Museum curator claims to have found evidence that the tomb's royal murals and hieroglyphics might have been a hasty cover-up.that the painting of Tutankhamun on his tomb's wall is not actually of the pharaoh himself. The lines around the corner of his mouth are often seen in paintings of his predecessor, Nefertiti.
Reeves, therefore, thinks that before the images on the walls depicted a 19-year-old male's burial, they might have shown Tutankhamun burying his step-mother, Nefertiti, whose mummy has never been found., the oval-framed hieroglyphs above these depictions, known as cartouches, appear to have been written over, changing the identity of those involved in the burial ceremony., depicted Tutankhamun's body being prepared for burial by his successor, Ay.
"Close inspection of Ay's cartouches reveals clear, underlying traces of an earlier name – that of Tutankhamun," Reeves"In its original version, this scene had shown Tutankhamun performing the funerary ritual for the tomb's original owner, his immediate predecessor … Nefertiti." According to Reeves, it's entirely possible that Tutankhamun's tomb was tacked onto what was originally Nefertiti's tomb, following the boy king's unexpected death.In fact, Reeves has
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