Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany said on Friday no clear outcome was reached after the radar scans of King Tutankhamun's tomb.
The US-Egyptian team completed scans using a digital, ground-penetrating radar on Thursday. The team comprised both the current antiquities minister and the former, Mamdouh al-Damaty, as well as the Head of Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Mahmoud Afify, Head of Projects Sector Waadullah abul Ela, Faculty of Engineering Assistant Professor Yasser al-Shayeb, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics member Abbas Mohamed, in addition to two National Geographic experts.
The radar scanned each wall of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb, producing high resolution data that the team hope to use in producing 3D images of what is behind the walls.
Anany added that the scans could prove right Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves’s theory that the lost body of Queen Nefertiti, the wife of Tutankhamun's father, the pharaoh Akhenaten, could be found in one of the tomb’s chambers.
The team said that the outcome reached by Thursday's scans does not contradict the findings of previous radar scans, however more time is needed before any accurate results can be finalized. The radar experts said that 40 radar scans were conducted at different heights. The outcome will be published in a week's time.
An additional vertical radar scan will be carried out at end of April from outside the tomb, he added. The results will be made public in a press conference in May at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
