Egyptology was my second passion after I gave up on my childhood idea to become a paleontologist. For a number of years, in my early teens, I was sort of obsessed with old egypt and tried to study everything about it, that I could get my hands on. At that point everything I read and studied was based on the mainstream Egyptology view of old egypt.
At one point when I was about 14, I went alone to egypt with the local evangelic priest and his study group. I saw many of the major sites there, up and down the Nile. It is impressive, no doubt about that.
The Valley of the Kings is quite astounding too and Tut's grave is one of the smallest there. In retrospect I'm sort of glad that I did not follow through with the idea to become an Egyptologist. Most Egyptologist are very dogmatic (or rather become very dogmatic), righteous "scientists". The sheer number of hard facts they have to ignore, to keep up their mainstream view on egypt, is quite astounding. So I'm happy now that I never went down that road.
At one point during my obsession with egypt, I came across a book that challenged many ideas and facts about it. I read it and was pretty certain that the guy must be making up that stuff, like artifacts that shouldn't be there. So I brushed it aside and only many years later I realized that most of the things he presented there, were indeed real and very challenging to the mainstream view.
Having said that, in Tut's grave you (normal people) can not go into the chamber, where the scans are now being conducted (at least it was like that when I was there).
Recent developments at the chamber are quite interesting. Now they claim that new scans show no hidden chambers:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160509-king-tut-tomb-chambers-radar-archaeology/
http://www.livescience.com/54708-nefertiti-missing-no-chambers-in-king-tut-tomb.html
New "independent" scans have just been conducted and the real experts who conducted the scans now, say they couldn't find anything of what Watanabe claimed he found in his scans.
“I tell you, everybody I talked to who is in the GPR business just rolled their eyes and said, ‘There’s nothing here at all,’” Lawrence Conyers, theauthor of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Archaeology, said.A number of experts said that radar can’t distinguish “organic” material, as Watanabe claimed.
They say that Watanabe uses old outdated technology and isn't very willing to share how he conducts his research data with other scientists. Watanabe is said to have been "too enthusiastic" about his preliminary results. Watanabe claims that the technology he uses can also sense metallic and organic objects.
On the other hand Izumi Shimada, an anthropologist at Southern Illinois University who worked with Watanabe in the past, said that he has always been a controversial figure in Japan.
Butfurther he says this about Watanabe:
“Maybe he uses他的个人经历more than relying on software or cutting-edge technology,” Shimada said. “However good the software is,it’s still a human interpretation of what you see on the monitor.There is a great deal of subjectivity.”He said that Watanabe has a history of success: “He has worked in many archaeological settings, and he has found things that archaeologists were looking for and that they hadn’t been able to find.”
Shimada also said that Watanabe has a tendency to become “too enthusiastic” about preliminary results.He noted that Watanabe isn’t an academic, with a background originally in industry.Nevertheless, Shimada decided to enlist Watanabe’s servicesbecause “there was no doubt that he has worked in a most diverse range of settings.”
They collaborated for more than a decade on the northern coast of Peru, where Watanabe’s radar helped Shimada carry out a series of extremely successful excavations of tombs from the Sicán culture.
When informed of the contradictory radar results from Tut’s tomb, and the fact that other specialists were questioning Watanabe’s findings,Shimada said, “I don’t think I heard about the cases of his predictions being wrong like that.”
So either Watanabe’s results are really over hyped and/or wrong, or the authorities want to control what is going on there. Wouldn't be the first time the high priest of mainstream Egyptology do something like that.
Hawass says this:
After claiming that radar has never led to a single discovery in Egypt, Hawass said, “We have to stop this media business, because there is nothing to publish. There is nothing to publish today or yesterday.”
These new scans were carried out under the supervision of "National Geographic Society". In the articles above, we can read this interesting bit of information about the society and its agreements with Egypt's antiquities ministry:
Radar scans由National Geographic teamhave found that there are no hidden chambers in Tutankhamun's tomb, disproving a claim that the secret grave of Queen Nefertiti lurks behind the walls.
"If we had a void, we should have a strong reflection,"Dean Goodman, a geophysicist at GPR-Slice software told National Geographic News, which published a feature on the research. "But it just doesn't exist."
Live Science contacted Goodman about the research. Goodman said that though he prepared a response,a nondisclosure agreement with the National Geographic Societymeant that he needed the society's permission to release that statement.
The society refused this permission, sending a statement to Live Science this morning (May 10),explaining thatthe society's agreement with Egypt's antiquities ministry prevents it from granting media access.
For me it looks like something stinks there. The high priests of mainstream history might be afraid what could be discovered there. I could be wrong though.