It’s official: There are no hidden chambers or passages behind the walls of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb. Egyptian officials announced that recent radar scans of the famed burial chamber prove that there are no mysteries lurking behind the walls.
The announcement brings to a disappointing end an investigation that started three years ago, National Geographic reports, when Egyptologist and National Geographic grantee Nicholas Reeves suspected that the tomb of legendary 18th-dynasty Queen Nefertiti might be hidden behind King Tut’s 3,300-year-old tomb. Two previous radar scans had come back inconclusive, but the third and most recent radar investigation is the most comprehensive search yet.
In a statement, Khaled El Enany, Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, writes: “We conclude, with a very high level of confidence, that the hypothesis concerning the existence of hidden chambers adjacent [to] Tutankhamun’s tomb is not supported by the GPR data,” according to Nat Geo.
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