Egypt, pharaoh

The recent discovery of the grave of Pharaoh Thutmose II in Luxor brings to light crucial information on the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
He was husband and half-brother of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, and father of Thutmose III, arguably ancient Egypt’s greatest military leader. Thutmose was himself of royal blood as a ...
Given its relative simplicity and location near Queen Hatshepsut’s grave, archeologists initially theorized No. C4 contained one of King Thutmose III’s wives. The room and its features had ...
given its proximity to the tomb of the wives of King Thutmose III and to the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman to have reigned as a pharaoh in Egypt. Artefacts discovered in the tomb ...
Thutmose II died 3,500 years ago and his tomb was thought to be at the other end of the mountain near the Valley of the Kings ...