Egyptian officials announced on Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutumos II, the last of the missing tombs of the eighteenth family kings in ancient Egypt, which prevailed for more than two centuries from about 1550 BC and 1292 BC. It is the first Egyptian royal grave to be discovered since the final resting place of King Totchhamon was found in 1922.
I discovered a joint Egyptian Egyptian archaeological mission, Thuctose II, in Jabal Taiba, west of Kamel and the famous valley of the kings. The team and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, which issued the announcement, said that the evidence clearly indicates that the tomb of King Thutumus II during the excavations was not previously known only as Tomb no. C4.
The main entrance and corridor in the temple were discovered in 2022, and internal excavations have continued accurately since then.
Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary -General of the Supreme Council in Egypt, said when I found the task for the first time the entrance to the grave and its main corridor almost three years ago, the team believes that it can belong to one of the wives of the kings, given her proximity to the grave of the wives of King Thutumos III and his proximity to tomb Queen HatshevsotAnd that was ready for her as a royal wife before she became the ruler of the old kingdom. It ended up burial in the Valley of the Kings, because of its ascension to the throne.
As the excavation and artifacts continued to do, the task found new evidence that identified the owner of the mysterious grave as King Thutumus II, which also indicates that the burial rituals had been carried out by Queen Hashibsut, whose wife and sister sister and sister were.
Khaled said that parts of the nurses ships in the rubble have inscriptions bearing the name of King Thuntus II and determining his identity as “the deceased king”, along with the name of his wife, Hatshevsut, all of which said that all of this helped confirm Thuntus II as the owner of the grave.
He described the discovery as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. The discovered artifacts are important additions to the Knowledge Group around the history of the region and the era of King Thutumus II.
The mummy of King Thutumos II, who ruled during the eighteenth family of ancient Egypt, was seen in the form of a file presented by the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. / Credit: With the permission of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
King Thuntus II’s mummy was discovered during the nineteenth century, and not far away in another archaeological location known as Deir Al -Bahari, which is likely to be transferred to centuries after his loot A relatively new national museum Egyptian civilization. His mummy is now displayed, among the members of the old royal family, in the museum.
The grave is in a bad state of maintaining this to a large extent to exposure to floods shortly after the death of Thutmose II, according to Mohamed Abdel Badi, Head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector in the Supreme Council of Antiquities and head of the Egyptian team who worked on digging. Abdul Badi said that initial studies also indicate that many of the original contents of the grave have been transferred to another site after the old floods.
He said that the teams discovered the mortar in the cemetery with the remains of the blue inscriptions and the yellow stars, and some paragraphs from the book “IMYDWAT”, which is one of the most important funerary books in the ancient Egyptian graves, written to help direct the late Royals through the underworld.
The photos that are shared by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on February 18, 2025, appear inside a grave discovered in the Jabal Taibah area, west of Kamel and the famous Valley of the Kings, designed to belong to King Thutumos II who ruled during the eighteenth family in ancient Egypt. / Credit: The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Dr. Peres Leadland, head of the English team on the site, said that the grave is characterized by a simple, typical architectural design for those who were the successive referees of Egypt who came after Thuntus II.
Lareland said that the task will continue its investigative work and try to determine the place where the rest of the contents of the Thutmose II grave were transferred, and to reveal any other secrets that may have been closed under the ground for thousands of years.
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