The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who was married to Queen Hatshepsut and ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings. It is the first discovery of a ...

The mummy of King Thutmose II was previously found at the nearby archaeological site Deir el-Bahari Cachette in the 19th century. Many other belongings from his tomb are believed to have been ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Little is known about Thutmose II, who reigned as pharaoh from about 1493 B.C. until about 1479—more than 100 years before Tutankhamun lived, but part of the same 18th Dynasty of Egyptian kings.

Archaeologists determined that the tomb, unearthed in 2022, belonged to Thutmose II from shards of alabaster jars and the tomb's kingly decor, Dr. Piers Litherland, the mission's British field ...

Few monuments are dedicated to him. Thutmose II died before the age of 30. A body believed to be his was discovered in the Deir el-Bahri Cache, located above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut.

Thutmose II was an ancestor of King Tut who reigned from 1493 to 1479 BC. He was married to Queen Hatshepsut, one of the few women to rule in her own right, and the father of King Thutmose III.

Thutmose II's mummy was discovered in 1881 in Al-Deir El-Bahari Cache. It is believed to have been moved there by grave robbers seeking treasure.

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of King Thutmose II’s tomb on Tuesday, ending a search for what they called the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty ...

Following Hatshepsut’s death in 1458 B.C.E., Thutmose III, her nephew and successor, launched a systematic program of erasure, smashing her statues and chiseling her name from temple walls.

When Thutmose II died, the throne went to a son he’d had with another woman, Thutmose III. But as Thutmose III was an infant at the time, Hatshepsut ruled in his stead.