Archaeologist believes he's found Nefertiti's secret burial place

If an archaeologist's hunch is correct, then he has pinpointed the final resting place of Nefertiti and made the discovery of a lifetime.

Nicholas Reeves of the University of Arizona believes the former Queen of Egypt could be secretly buried inside King Tutanhkamun's tomb. Reeves closely examined detailed scans of the tomb, and found what he thinks are marks indicating where two doorways used to be. "I have been testing the evidence ever since, looking for indications that what I thought I was seeing was, in fact, not there," Reeves told the BBC. "But the more I looked, the more information I found that I seemed to be looking at something pretty real."

King Tut’s tomb was found in 1922 by English archaeologist Howard Carter, with nearly 2,000 objects inside that took nine years to catalogue. The tomb is on the smaller side, and Reeves thinks that indicates it was made for a queen, not a king. It is possible that Nefertiti is King Tut's mother, and if her tomb is uncovered it would be "quite a coup," Reeves said. "If I'm wrong, I'm wrong," he added. "But if I'm right, the prospects are frankly staggering. The world will have become a much more interesting place — at least for Egyptologists."

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