Secrets Hidden Behind the Walls: The Tomb of Tutankhamun and Nefertiti?

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Christopher Naunton

In summer 2015, British Egyptologist Dr Nicholas Reeves announced that he believed the burial of Queen Nefertiti, great wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, whose image is an archetype of ancient world beauty, lay undisturbed behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb. There are three parts to this sensational story: Firstly there is Reeves’ observation of faint marks on the walls, the tell-take signs, he believes, that something has been concealed. Secondly, there’s Reeves’ well-argued theory that if anything is there, it’s the undisturbed burial of Nefertiti. Could he be right? In any case part of the intrigue here is that we still don’t know where she was buried; if Reeves is wrong, where was Nefertiti buried? Finally there is the story of the story: how the theory was published, and how it was received by a world still utterly gripped by ancient Egypt, and things that are ‘secret’ or ‘hidden’, ideally behind walls…

Dr Christopher Naunton is the Director of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) and will deliver this The Marion Adams Memorial Lecture.

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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7264-secrets-hidden-behind-the-walls-the-tomb-of-tutankhamun-and