Experts are now 90 percent sure that King Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt has a secret chamber.
This was the statement that the Egypt's antiquities minister shared to the public Saturday after infrared and radar technology was used to scan the 3,000-year-old walls of the tomb that resulted in the detection of a portion of the wall, which registered a different temperature than the other parts, TIME reported.
"The radar, behind the north wall of Tutankhamun's burial chamber seems pretty clear. If I am right it is a continuation - corridor continuation - of the tomb, which will end in another burial chamber. I think it is Nefertiti and all the evidence points in that direction," British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves said at a press conference in Luxor, home of Egypt's celebrated Valley of the Kings, according to USA Today.
Furthermore, Reeves strongly believes that the chamber contains the remains of Queen Nerfertiti, a wife of King Akhenaten, King Tut's father. Other Egyptologists, however, are open to the possibility that it could also contain another of Akhenaten's wives, like Kiya, according to the Inquisitr.
Results of the scan are to be sent to archaeological experts in Japan for processing and research, which will take about a month.
Howard Carter, a British archaeologist, was the original discoverer of King Tut's tomb back in 1922.
