• Into The Mummy's Tomb By Nicholas Reeves

Into The Mummy's Tomb By Nicholas Reeves

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The beautiful bust of Nefertiti, and the golden mask of Tutankhamun. I have remarked wryly to E gyptology groups in the UK, that only by cl aiming to have located Cleopatra buried behind the wall of the burial chamber in the Great Pyramid could Reeves have found two names of comparable status; but of course the impact in that case would not have been as great, without those iconic f aces. This then is a discovery, or at least a theory, made for the media. I must here assure the reader that I will subject the claims made in.

On of the features is as follows: 1 and 3 he sees as natural faults in the rock; and 2 and 4 as the twin jambs of a doorframe, analogous to the entrance to the opening to the Annex (Ia) from the Antechamber (I). In this case Feature 3 would be a natural crack running from the ceiling to the lintel of a doorway as se en above the doorway to side room Jbb in WV22, the tomb of Amenhotep III. How subtle these marks are can be gleaned from the fact that the negative view of this wall (Figure 7) quite clearly sh. Dynasty appear to have aimed to have four such side chambers, ideally one at each end of the Burial Chamber, and one on each side of the Antechamber.

Thus this arrangement, which was initiated by Amenhotep II in KV35, was continued by Thutmose IV in KV43, and developed by Amenhotep III in WV22, and Horemheb in KV57. The development, in the two latter cases is that an additional side chamber was added to the Burial Chamber and that one or two of these side chambers were extended to form burial suites for famil y members. As Reeves notes, the fact that the Entrance Passage (B). Came after that of Akhenaten at Amarna (TA26), which only had a single side room opening off the burial chamber area (and made provision f or other family members in suites opening from the right of the entrance pass age); and was followed by the tomb of Ay (WV23) which also had just one side chamber opening from the burial chamber. Reeves next directs our attention to the north wall of the Burial Chamber (J), the longest decorated surface in KV62, which depicts, right-to-left: Ay opening the mouth of. The uneven right-hand edge of a disturbed area very roughly 1.5m from the east end of the wall. Pnc park concessions map. Reeves points out that the vertical lines seen on the scans, which he numbers 2 (west) and 3 (east), line up with the west and east walls of the Antechamber (I), and su ggests that a corridor of that width once continued across, and perhaps beyond, what is now the Burial Chamber (J).

The part of the north wall between these two lines he believes to be a built partition blocking off further chambers, and that the crack running diagonally from the ceiling to meet his Line 2 is c onsistent with the settlement of a built partition wall at this point. But in fact Reeves' doorway is really no more than the vague suggestion of a vertical line to the right and below his figure 4.

The rest can be seen as part of a generalised area of disturbance covering a large part of the lower north wall. There is, indeed, a cleaner vertical than his Line 6 running down from the left of the figure 6 to meet a step in the scan margin. The fact is that a lot of different lines and features may be postulated on the surface of the north wall, many of them at least as convincing as any indicated by Reeves, for instance: Line A (see notes in 1 and 2 above). A possible stretch of strai ght vertical line between 2 and 4.