# Radar reveals two new rooms in Tutankhamun tomb **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167 "2015-10-01T18:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/81 "2015-11-10T02:44:21Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > They’ll just find a grain storage room. Bah! Ninja’d! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/82 "2015-11-10T04:32:37Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > They’ll just find a grain storage room. With pictures of seven skinny cows eating seven fat cows? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/83 "2015-11-10T17:02:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > [Groucho Marx]I wish you were both in the Nile-wearing concrete galoshes.[/Groucho Marx] I think you’ve been breathing underground tomb air for too long. It causes extrapyramidal side effects. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/84 "2015-11-10T20:56:01Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > I think you’ve been breathing underground tomb air for too long. It causes extrapyramidal side effects. No, I just drank too much last night. Well, technically this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/85 "2015-11-10T21:22:28Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > They’ll just find a grain storage room. You realize that if it turns out to be \*anything \*of the kind, even a worker’s sandwich locker… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/86 "2015-11-10T21:24:50Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > You realize that if it turns out to be \*anything \*of the kind, even a worker’s sandwich locker… :smack: Don’t mention things like that, ok? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/87 "2015-11-10T22:42:16Z")
Do you know how to spell “Tut” in the original Egyptian? O-A-O! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/88 "2015-11-11T00:30:03Z")
How many people have had King Tut stuck in their head all day? I hear the whole darn song and remember the moves. Thank you so mach Steve Martin for that lifelong ear worm. All it takes to set it off is a story about Tut. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/89 "2015-11-11T00:38:57Z")
How’d he get so funky? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/90 "2015-11-11T00:47:59Z")
This sounds like a Ponzi scheme. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/91 "2015-11-11T02:38:26Z")
They just need to use a transporter beam to put a probe into any sealed mystery chamber. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/92 "2015-11-11T03:58:05Z")
Born in Arizona ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/93 "2015-11-11T04:04:28Z")
Hey! When was the last time you gave _your_ life for tourism? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/94 "2015-11-11T13:50:59Z")
Besides the grain, there’ll be hieroglyphs of Tut trying to hit his mother with a hammer, Tut stabbing a friend, and a young Tut being promised money by a military figure. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/95 "2015-11-12T06:00:14Z")
Dr Hawass is an asshole. I find his attempts to “preserve Ancient Egyptian antiquities” highly suspect. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/96 "2015-11-12T19:00:04Z")
I thought Hawass was forced out during the last regime change. Is he back in charge? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/97 "2015-11-12T21:08:37Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I thought Hawass was forced out during the last regime change. Is he back in charge? [From wikipedia:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahi_Hawass#Controversies) "Criticism of Hawass increased following the protests in Egypt in 2011. The New York Times reported in a front page story in July 2011 that he receives an honorarium each year “of as much as $200,000” from National Geographic to be an explorer-in-residence, “even as he controls access to the ancient sites it often features in its reports.”[52] The Times also reported that he has relationships with two American companies that do business in Egypt.[52] On April 17, 2011, Hawass was sentenced to jail for one year for refusing to obey a court ruling[53] relating to a contract for the gift shop at the Egyptian Museum to a company with links to Hawass.[52] The ruling was appealed and this specific sentence was suspended pending appeal.[53][54] The following day, the National Council of Egypt’s Administrative Court issued a decree to overturn the court’s original ruling, specifying that he would serve no jail time, and would instead remain in his position as Minister of Antiquities.[52][55]" ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/98 "2016-03-18T01:46:24Z")
Update: > **[National Geographic](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/)** > > Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration. > [@](#): > > On Thursday, Mamdouh Eldamaty, the Egyptian antiquities minister, held a press conference in Cairo to announce a tantalizing new piece of evidence: Radar scans on those walls have revealed not only the presence of hidden chambers, but also unidentified objects that lie within these rooms. **These objects, Eldamaty said, seem to be composed of both metal and organic materials.** > > “It could be the discovery of the century,” he said. Noting that he can’t speculate further about the things that lie within the chambers, he said that another radar test has been scheduled for the end of this month, in order to determine the best way to proceed with the investigation. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/99 "2016-03-18T11:13:37Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > How’d he get so funky? More to the point, did he do the monkey? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167/100 "2016-03-18T15:53:46Z")
Somebody had better explain [these](https://res.cloudinary.com/roadtrippers/image/upload/w_640,fl_progressive,q_60/v1457230267/k3siybyzbsyrwixbh1we.jpg), PDQ! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-reveals-two-new-rooms-in-tutankhamun-tomb/733167.md?page=6)