Archaeologists find a tomb of Pharaoh, the first from King Tut, says Egypt
Archaeologists found a tomb of Pharaoh near the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, the country's ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a real tomb since Tutankhan's reach was brought.The newly identified tomb belonged to Thutmose II, which is believed to have reigned around 1480 AC was "the last real tomb that disappeared of the 18th dynasty", said the Egyptian ministry in a note.The excavation was a joint project of Egyptian and British researchers who began in 2022, when the entrance and the main corridor of the tomb were found.Archaeologists initially thought that the tomb belonged to a real consort, due to its position near the burial places of the real wives and that of Thutmose II's wife, Hatshepsut, who took the throne alone after h...