Anthropology

Wicked Blue

(7,692 posts) Wed Feb 19, 2025, 05:58 PM Feb 19

First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's

BBC

Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun's was uncovered over a century ago.

Until recently, King Thutmose II's tomb was the last undiscovered royal tomb of the 18th Egyptian dynasty.

But a British-Egyptian team located it in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor. Researchers had thought the burial chambers of the 18th dynasty pharaohs were more than 2km away, closer to the Valley of the Kings.

The crew found it an area associated with the resting places of royal women, but when they got into the burial chamber they found it decorated - the sign of a pharaoh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ym30v356po

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First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 19 OP

Beware the Aflatoxin (or whatever was truly behind the Pharaoh's curse) hlthe2b Feb 19 #1

Excellent. I want to return to Egypt someday. sinkingfeeling Feb 19 #2

'You dream about such things': Brit who discovered missing pharaoh's tomb may have unearthed another muriel_volestrangler Feb 22 #3

hlthe2b

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1. Beware the Aflatoxin (or whatever was truly behind the Pharaoh's curse)

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Wed Feb 19, 2025, 06:19 PM

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sinkingfeeling

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2. Excellent. I want to return to Egypt someday.

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Wed Feb 19, 2025, 06:44 PM

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muriel_volestrangler

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3. 'You dream about such things': Brit who discovered missing pharaoh's tomb may have unearthed another

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Sat Feb 22, 2025, 04:50 PM

Feb 22

Now Litherland has told the Observer he believes he has identified the location of a second tomb belonging to Thutmose II. And this one, he suspects, will contain the young pharaoh’s mummified body and grave goods.

Archeologists believe this second tomb has been hiding in plain sight for 3,500 years, secretly buried beneath 23 metres of limestone flakes, rubble, ash and mud plaster and made to look like part of the mountain.

“There are 23 metres of a pile of man-made layers sitting above a point in the landscape where we believe – and we have other confirmatory evidence – there is a monument concealed beneath,” he said. “The best candidate for what is hidden underneath this enormously expensive, in terms of effort, pile is the second tomb of Thutmose II.”

While searching close to the first tomb for clues about where its contents were taken after the flood, Litherland found a posthumous inscription buried in a pit with a cow sacrifice. This inscription indicates the contents may have been moved by the king’s wife and half-sister Hatshepsut – one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs and one of the few women to rule in her own right – to an as-yet undiscovered second tomb nearby.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/22/you-dream-about-such-things-brit-who-discovered-missing-pharaohs-tomb-may-have-unearthed-another

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