halo. His mother was considered the legendary beauty Nefertiti, and Akhenaten, Amenhotep III and Smenkhkar were recorded as fathers. The cause of death of the child king was called murder, an accident during hunting or a complication after an illness. However, Western experts have already stated that the current results of DNA tests will most likely not be enough to accurately determine Tutankhamun's ancestry. Scientists insist that they need to be supplemented with other archaeological evidence. … Italian scientists are conducting the third study of the tomb of the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the vicinity of Luxor in Egypt in search of the burial of Queen Nefertiti, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement. The decision to conduct a third additional study was made at an international scientific conference in Cairo in 2016. It should give a final conclusion about the possible presence of rooms hidden behind frescoes in the walls of the tomb, which may be the disguised burial of Queen Nefertiti. The theory of the hidden tomb of Nefertiti was put forward by British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves. The ministry's statement indicates that Italian specialists are working using advanced equipment. The study will last a week, followed by painstaking work on the study of the data obtained, after which the scientists will make their verdict. According to Reeves' theory, the entrance to the tomb of the famous ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, whose tomb has not yet been found, may be hidden in one of the walls of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The entrance may have been artfully camouflaged with frescoed plaster in one of the walls of the tomb of the young pharaoh, who is believed to be her adopted son. The British scientist made this conclusion after a detailed study of three-dimensional laser scanned images of the tomb, as well as its layout. According to Reeves, studying a three-dimensional replica of the tomb and wondering why Tutankhamun's tomb is much smaller than the tombs of other ancient Egyptian kings, he came to the conclusion from a number of facts that this tomb was originally intended for the queen, and not for the king. It had to be used for the burial of the Pharaoh due to the sudden death of Tutankhamun and the lack of another suitable place for the tomb. The scientist proposed to test his theory using radar, which makes it easy to detect possible voids behind the walls of the tomb. This proposal of the Briton was accepted by the then Minister of Antiquities of Egypt, Mamdouh al-Damati. The research was carried out, and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities reported that the radar actually found two rooms behind one of the walls of the tomb. In addition, the study showed the presence of objects of organic origin behind the wall, possibly bones or wood, as well as others made of metal. Reeves suggested continuing the research and making a hole in the wall of the tomb to prove the results obtained using radar. However, the current Minister Khaled al-Annani refused to conduct any research that could damage this priceless monument. It was decided to conduct a third additional study using radar. The tomb of Tutankhamun, almost untouched by robbers, was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
