It’s Official: Tut’s Tomb Has No Hidden Chambers After All

A technician uses ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to search for voids behind the west wall of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The 2018 investigation was coordinated by specialists from the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy.

Scientists and officials look on as a GPR scan is conducted on the west wall of King Tut’s burial chamber on February 1, 2018.

King Tut's sarcophagus is seen in his tomb while engineers conduct a GPR scan of the north wall.

Tut’s sarcophagus almost fills his burial chamber, which was unusually small for a pharaoh—leading some to theorise that the tomb originally was larger.

Technicians position a radar antenna beside the west wall of Tut’s tomb. If a hidden chamber exists, one theory is that it could be the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, Tut’s stepmother.

Professor Mamdouh El Damaty examines the north wall of the tomb during the third radar scan.

King Tut’s mummy is displayed at the entrance to his tomb.

Workers gather outside an administrative building near Tut’s tomb late at night. Scanning is conducted after the Valley of the Kings is closed to tourists for the day.