CAIRO — Radar scans of King Tut's tomb have revealed two empty spaces on the north and east chambers of the pharaonic mausoleum, Egypt's antiquities ministry said Thursday.
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al Damaty told a press conference that metal and organic masses were revealed by the scans, signalling that the rooms could possibly contain funerary objects.
King Tutankhamun, often dubbed the boy king, was an Egyptian pharaoh who rose to power in 1333 B.C., at the tender age of 10. His mother was Queen Nefertiti, and his father was Akhenaten.
One prominent Egyptologist has theorized that Queen Nefertiti could be buried in the walls of the 3,300-year-old pharaonic mausoleum.
Damaty said further tests will be done on March 31 to determine more about the newly-discovered spaces.
