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Over 3,000 years later Egyptian boy-king, Tutankhamun continues to provide insight into life in ancient Egypt as the country's antiquities minister has said King Tut's tomb may contain hidden chambers which could possibly be the tomb of a queen.
British Egyptologist, Nicholas Reeves had recently theorized that Tutankhamun, popularly known as King Tut, may have been rushed into an outer chamber of what was originally the tomb of Queen Nefertiti.
Following the speculation, Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty who was touring the burial sites of Tutankhamun and other pharaohs in the famed Valley of the Kings with Reeves said he will seek final approval for the radar inspection of the tomb.
Reeves had said high-resolution images of King Tut's tomb "revealed several very interesting features which look not at all natural, features like very, very straight lines which are 90 degrees to the ground, positioned so as to correspond with other features within the tomb."
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According to him, the plastered walls could conceal two unexplored doorways, one of which perhaps leads to Nefertiti's tomb.
He further said that the design of the tomb suggests it was built for a queen, rather than a king.
Agreeing with Reeves, el-Damaty said if anyone is buried there it is likely Kia, believed by some Egyptologists to be King Tut's mother.
Famed for her beauty, Nefertiti, was the primary wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who introduced an early form of monotheism. Akhenaten was succeeded by a pharaoh referred to as Smenkhare and then Tut, who is widely believed to have been Akhenaten's son.
But Reeves argues that Smenkhare is actually Nefertiti, saying that she simply changed her name.
"Nefertiti disappears... according to the latest inscriptions just being found, I think that Nefertiti didn't disappear, she simply changed her name."
He further theorises that after Nefertiti died, Tut was responsible for burying her, and then when he died someone decided to extend the tomb.
A discovery to this new theory could provide some valuable insight to ancient Egyptian history.
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