Zahi Hawass Set to Announce Queen Nefertiti Discovery
Well, it is well known that Zahi Hawass has been wanting to find the mummy of Queen Nefertiti after years of controversy about her final resting place.
2022-09-22 19:00:00 - Ancient Architects
Do we already have her mummy, but is yet to be identified? Is she hidden behind a false wall in the tomb of Tutankhamen? Is she lost to history? The discussions and debates have raged for years.
Queen Nefertiti is one of the most well-known historic figures of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty, who, with her husband, is known for leading a religious revolution, called Atenism.
On the death of her husband it is also believed by many that she ruled Egypt in her own right, before the ascension of the boy king Tutankhamen. The story of Nefertiti is mysterious, elusive, but also fascinating, and that is why the forthcoming announcement is getting media headlines around the world.
Hawass has said: “In October we will be able to announce the discovery of the mummy of Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun’s wife, and her mother, Nefertiti. There is also in tomb KV35 the mummy of a 10-year-old boy. If that child is the brother of Tutankhamun and the son of Akhenaten, the problem posed by Nefertiti will be solved.”
So this is a big claim and also, it does look like we know which mummies Hawass is talking about, both found in Tomb KV21 in the Valley of the Kings, and discovered not recently, but in 1817 by Giovanni Belzoni.