Last night I watched a new documentary "Secret's of Egypt's Valley of the Kings". One section showed Egyptologist Aliaa Ismail discussing scans of the walls of KV62. Not the scans to find voids, but to look underneath the paint. It's under the control of Factum Arte at Luxor, but this is something different to the HD photos they made of KV62 in order for a duplicate tomb to be created. Very briefly on screen Ismail held up a laptop and pointed to one of the results, seen in the photo below. This shows the head of Tutankhamun wearing a wig were he is depicted on the North wall facing Nut. At the top left, the bottom part of the cartouche with his throne name can be seen. I don't see anything unusual with his head and it is clear that it has not been painted over another image. While the image of the cartouche is not complete or very clear, I don't see that being painted over, or altered from another name. Obviously from a screen shot like this we cannot make bold statements, unless about Tutankhamun's haplogroup 
it will be interesting to see the results showing all the cartouches very clearly. This should then answer the question about whether the KV62 wall scenes originally showed Tutankhaten performing the opening of the mouth ceremony on Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten. From the little I've seen so far, and against the result that I would like, it seems that these scenes were infact orgininally painted to depict the burial of Tutankhamun by Ay.
it will be interesting to see the results showing all the cartouches very clearly. This should then answer the question about whether the KV62 wall scenes originally showed Tutankhaten performing the opening of the mouth ceremony on Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten. From the little I've seen so far, and against the result that I would like, it seems that these scenes were infact orgininally painted to depict the burial of Tutankhamun by Ay.
It would demonstrate that the tomb had adorned for Tut ... actually the idea that they used a burial site excavated for someone else [probably a queen or a noble woman] and then they decorated and modified it [they had to modify a wall to make the sarcophagus enter, so it's improbably they projected that little tomb for the Monarch] is not new.
This would make it impossible to guess who was the person intended to be buried there in a first time, but this would be reality.
This would make it impossible to guess who was the person intended to be buried there in a first time, but this would be reality.
Okay, so this is an English forum and I'm linking a German language documentary. But, it's really good and shows in very close detail a number of objects from KV62 that we either never get to see, or not this well. This is yet another in a series of documentaries that have been made possible due to the restoration of many of the objects during the move to the GEM. Main talking heads are Marc Gabolde and director of the GEM, Tarek Tawfik, speaking in German. One of the points of interest is Gabolde showing the changes made to the cartouches on the canopic chest, exciting stuff for some of us.
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