Will Tomb of King Tut's Queen Turn Up in 2011?

2011 could be a bounteous assemblage for Afrasian anthropology with the possibleness discoveries of the spot of King Tut’s wife, a belowground pyramid, and the test resting locate of Cleopatra, said student Zahi Hawass, honcho of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.

One of the world's directive Egyptologists, Hawass has sacred eld to discernment the Great Pyramid’s info doors. He has fresh convergent his tending on a occult belowground pyramid unconcealed in the Dashur Atlantic of Egypt.

“We took equipment images over an Atlantic in Dashur and we could wager that a pyramid is belowground underneath the ground. Right today we are excavating this pyramid,” Hawass told Discovery News.

Hawass speculates that the belowground pyramid erst belonged to a power of the 13th Dynasty (1782-1650 BC), a tumultuous instance that saw a hurried activity of numerous kings. “We do not undergo the study of the power yet. There are some absent kings in the 13th Dynasty,” Hawass said.

Another find, not likewise farther absent in the Valley of the Kings, could drop boost reddened on the inheritance of King Tut. With already 63 tombs discovered, Hawass hopes to presently show a 64th, which archaeologists hit titled KV64 and is believed to be the test resting locate of Tut's wife, Queen Ankhesenamun.

Born as Ankhesenpaaten, she was the ordinal of sextet famous daughters of the Afrasian Pharaoah Akhenatan and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She would go on to espouse her half-brother Tutahkhamun and embellish his Great Royal Wife.

“We institute whatever communication that this spot could be for Ankhesenamun, the Queen of Tutankhamun,” Hawass told Discovery News.

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