![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/hieroglyphs-hint-that-king-tuts-tomb-hides-even-greater-treasure/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1667684968591.jpg&description=A hundred years ago on Friday, a team led by the British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered a stone step in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It would lead to the tomb of King Tutankhamun. The find, first reported by this newspaper, was hailed as the most spectacular of the century but if Carter had pressed on just a few more yards might he have uncovered an even greater prize? A newly revised book by another British archaeologist has put forward evidence that Tutankhamun's tomb, created more than 3000 years ago, is a mere antechamber. Hidden behind it, he suggests, is a larger hidden sepulchre: the undisturbed final resting place of Tutankhamun's stepmother, the fabled Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.Tourists film inside the tomb chamber of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. Egypt celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb on November 4, 1922. READ MORE: * Queen Nefertiti's true beauty could soon be revealed * A 3500-year-old mummy of an Egyptian king has been 'digitally unwrapped' for the first time * Egypt: A long history of tomb raiding * There's no secret chamber in King Tut's tomb after all, researchers conclude * Nefertiti tomb theory is 'baseless', says Egyptologist "The greatest archaeological discovery in the world has got more to give - potentially something far more impressive than Tutankhamun's burial," Dr Nicholas Reeves told The Times. "I'm suggesting that the most famous woman in the ancient world is also buried there." Carter estimated that a large portion of the lavish burial goods that were buried with Tutankhamun were stolen before his discovery of the site in 1922. Yet it still took him a decade to document the treasures that remained. If Reeves is right, the artefacts that Nefertiti was supposed to take with her to the next world remain entirely intact.Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesThe bust of Nefertiti was discovered in 1912. She was the great royal wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaton. The bust is){kind=link}
Exactly 100 years ago today, a team led by Howard Carter, the British archaeologist, uncovered a stone step in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It would lead to the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
The find, first reported by this newspaper, was hailed as the most spectacular of the century but if Carter had pressed on just a few more yards might he have uncovered an even greater prize?
A newly revised book by another British archaeologist has put forward fresh evidence that Tutankhamun’s tomb, created more than 3,000 years ago, is a mere antechamber.
Hidden behind it, he suggests, is a larger hidden sepulchre: the undisturbed final resting place of Tutankhamun’s stepmother, the fabled Egyptian queen Nefertiti.
“The greatest archaeological discovery in the world has got more to give – potentially something far more impressive than Tutankhamun’s burial,” Dr Nicholas Reeves told The Times. “I’m suggesting that the most famous woman in the ancient world is also buried there.”