More scans needed for King Tut's 'hidden chamber,' Egypt's minister says

More scans are needed to confirm whether there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt's antiquities minister said Friday.

Experts will conduct a fourth scan on King Tut's tomb — which many believe may have Queen Nefertiti's remains — in April with results due the first week of May, Khaled al-Anani told a news conference in Luxor, Egypt, the AFP reported.

"I hope we are going to find something else, but nothing is certain at the moment," Anani said.

Anani also asked for scholars across the world to participate in a conference on King Tut in Cairo next month, National Geographic reported.

"We are not looking for hidden chambers," Anani said. "We are looking for reality and truth."

Last month, Anani's predecessor, Mamdouh el-Damaty, told a news conference in Cairo that scans analyzed by a Japanese team showed that two hidden rooms were believed to be behind the walls of the boy king's burial chamber and could contain metal or organic material.

“It could be the discovery of the century,” Damaty said in March. “It is very important for Egyptian history and for all of the world.”

In August, Nicholas Reeves, an Egyptologist with the University of Arizona, published a paper that suggested that Nefertiti's tomb might be hidden in a passageway behind Tutankhamun's tomb.

Archeologists discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922 but archaeologists have been unable to find Nefertiti's final resting place.

Contributing: Jane Onyanga-Omara