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"I hope we are going to find something else, but nothing is certain at the moment," Anani told AFP outside Tutankhamun's tomb.
He was speaking as new radar tests were carried out on the mausoleum. Results are expected on Friday.
A study by renowned British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves has said that Nefertiti's tomb could be in a secret chamber adjoining Tutankhamun's final resting place in the Valley of Kings at Luxor in southern Egypt.
Reeves, professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona, believes one door of Tutankhamun's tomb could conceal the burial place of Nefertiti.
According to him, Tutankhamun, who died unexpectedly, was buried hurriedly in an underground chamber probably not intended for him.
Former antiquities minister Mamduh al-Damati said this month that preliminary scans had unearthed evidence of "two hidden rooms behind the burial chamber" of the boy king.
Anani said Thursday that analysis would determine the thickness of a possible wall behind the funerary chamber.
"There is a possibility that there is a cavity, after the latest scan. I hope we will find something... but as a scientist I need to be careful before announcing results," Anani said.
He added that if the latest scan revealed further evidence of a hidden room, a small hole could be bored through a wall and a camera inserted to discover what lay behind.
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He was speaking as new radar tests were carried out on the mausoleum. Results are expected on Friday.
A study by renowned British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves has said that Nefertiti's tomb could be in a secret chamber adjoining Tutankhamun's final resting place in the Valley of Kings at Luxor in southern Egypt.
Reeves, professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona, believes one door of Tutankhamun's tomb could conceal the burial place of Nefertiti.
According to him, Tutankhamun, who died unexpectedly, was buried hurriedly in an underground chamber probably not intended for him.
Former antiquities minister Mamduh al-Damati said this month that preliminary scans had unearthed evidence of "two hidden rooms behind the burial chamber" of the boy king.
Anani said Thursday that analysis would determine the thickness of a possible wall behind the funerary chamber.
"There is a possibility that there is a cavity, after the latest scan. I hope we will find something... but as a scientist I need to be careful before announcing results," Anani said.
He added that if the latest scan revealed further evidence of a hidden room, a small hole could be bored through a wall and a camera inserted to discover what lay behind.
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