This past week has been one of incredible excitement on my behalf.531Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvU0iHEtvg
Thursday the fifth of November marked officially the beginning of two days worth of infrared scans on the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt, searching for any sign of a hidden chamber. 531Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVhTHH4Btu
What makes this even more exciting is the prospect of what, and who, they may find if these chambers exist. Dr Christopher Reeves has suggested that there is not only one, but two hidden chambers concealed behind the walls of Tut's tomb, and that whilst one is only a store-room for the spoils of Tutankhamun's tomb that could not fit in the annexe, the other is a second burial place. A tomb that is fit for a queen, and one which contains none other than the famed beauty Nefertiti herself.531Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQG37FzGyx3
Let me tell you why I am excited beyond belief.531Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0XQAl1O7x
It all started when I was a child. Six, perhaps seven. Possibly even younger, I cannot truly remember. I watched the 1999 classic film 'The Mummy' and was mesmerised immediately. I knew right then that I would spend my life obsessed with Ancient Egypt, and indeed the very first book I ever remember buying for myself was a children's book styled much like a newspaper but with an Ancient Egyptian twist - ancient egyptian news stories, ancient egyptian 'adverts' that 'advertised' various gods and business etc etc. But I am off topic; the point is that I was a child obsessed. And whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would always answer 'Egyptologist'. And whenever anyone asked my why I wanted to be an Egyptologist, I would always answer 'to find Nefertiti'.531Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wjkgCzA9W
Finding Nefertiti was my top answer on those silly quizzes you are given by your teachers in primary school, y'know, the ones that say "What do you want to achieve when you grow up? What is your dream job?"531Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VhS1lMMm7
As I have grown older, I kind of assumed that if Nefertiti had not been found yet (there is some doubt over the identity of a young woman mummy found buried with relatives of King Tut), she never would be. She would be lost to the sands of time for the rest of eternity and that would be the end of it. I have long since given up on the dream that I should be the one to find her, and if this quest turns out to be successful, there may be some small part of me that mourns the passing of a childhood dream... but mostly I will be ecstatic, thrilled to live to see what treasures her tomb can offer. Not gold, but papers and paintings, furniture and inscriptions, anything that can allow us to gain an insight into a period where most of the things we 'know' are little more than guess work.
Today I read that the Egyptian authorities have indeed found something on the infrared that would indicate two chambers leading off the tomb of Tutankhamun. Of course it could be nothing. The theories could be wrong. And even if they are, it doesn't matter. The very possibility has ignited the spark of interest in Egyptology that has been lacking in so many for so many years. Perhaps they will want to visit Egypt, and perhaps this will induce the Egyptian authorities to take better care of the priceless treasures they preside over. Perhaps it will inspire some young child who will take their passion further than I have taken mine. Maybe choosing the medieval history degree I was offered over the egyptology one I was also offered will prove to be my biggest mistake in life, but perhaps not. Perhaps there is a young archeologist out there with just enough passion and belief to actually find her one day, and perhaps I was never meant to be the one to discover Nefertiti.
But let us not forget Dorothy Eady. A woman who worked for the Egyptian department of Antiquities and who believed she had been an Egyptian priestess in a past life claimed that she knew where the tomb of Nefertiti lay. More interestingly, she claimed it lay much closer to that of Tutankhamun than any of us would think to look. And wouldn't it just be damned well uncanny if she turned out to be right?
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