Exclusive video: The Minister speaks on the latest radar scan of King Tut's tomb

Minister of Antiquities talks on the latest and last results of the radar scan of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in ancient Thebes, modern day Luxor.

The full video showing the results in details by the head of the mission including the debate with the ministry officials will be published on Luxor Times Youtube channel later. Subscribe HERE to watch it. 

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Exclusive: latest news from valley of the kings with photos from King Tut's tomb

The radar scan started at King Tutankhamun's tomb (KV62) by a team of Egyptian and American specialists including Dr. Khalid El-Anany (minister of antiquities), Dr. Mamdouh El-Damaty (former minister of antiquities), Dr. Yasser El-Shaib, Dr. Abbas Mohamed (Geophysics specialist) alongside specialists from National Geographic society. 

This radar scan this time using GSSI radar of model SIR4000 with digital antennas of 400 and 900Mhz.

More about the radar being used from the manufacturer's web site: 

http://www.geophysical.com/sir4000.htm

The scan started by scanning the wall of the annex room to take a reading can be compared of a wall known what's behind it. 

Then the scan of the northern wall started from left to right (starting from end of west wall going towards the treasury room end of the northern wall) 

The west wall to go yet. 

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Promising results of the infrared thermography of Tutankhamun's tomb walls


The Ministry of Antiquities, Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University and Heritage, innovation and preservation (HIP) Institute - Paris joint scientific mission started the first experiment using infrared thermography to detect the temperature of the Tutankhamun walls, the experiment lasted for 24 hours stated Dr. Eldamaty, Minster of Antiquities.

The preliminary analysis, added Eldamaty, indicates the presence of an area different in its temperature than the other parts of the northern wall. In order to certify the results, Eldamaty said, a number of experiments will be carried out  to determine more accurately the area marking the difference in temperature. A study of the acquired results will be analyzed as well.

Eldamaty further added that a longer time is needed (one week or more) using the thermography technique in order to confirm the results.

Possibility of using other methods is being studied in the mean time to help identify the area different in temperature.

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