Factum Arte

We don't know what happened, but now fast-forward almost 100 years because technology gives an Egyptologist named Nicholas Reeves a way of looking at these walls that Carter never had.

Because in 2009, Factum Arte had made extremely detailed recordings of the tomb.

Years later, British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves examines high-resolution imagery and, well, he, he starts noticing lines, subtle features, things that to him look suspiciously like traces of blocked doorways.

And this is where it starts to get interesting, because Reeves isn't saying, "I found a door," he's saying, "Are we seeing something?" In 2015, he publishes a paper asking whether those traces could be blocked doorways, and whether Tut's burial might be just part of an older, larger tomb.

In 2015, the British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves published a paper arguing that Tutankhamun's tomb, catalogued as KV62, was never actually built for Tutankhamun at all.

Reeves pointed to high-resolution scans of the tomb's painted walls, commissioned by the conservation group Factum Arte, which appeared to show faint straight lines running beneath the paint and plaster.

lines he interpreted as the outline of two sealed, plastered-over doorways.

He also argued the tomb's own layout, a narrow, single corridor rather than the branching structure typical of a king's tomb, more closely matched the kind of tomb built for a queen.