Archaeologists may have found a second tomb of Tutmos II

A British archaeologist believes that his team may have found a second tomb in Egypt belonging to King Thutmos II.

The potential find comes just days after e -r Pierce Litherland announced the discovery From the first tomb of Pharaoh since Tutankhamun was discovered more than a century ago.

E r Litherland told the beholder He suspects that this second site will hold Pharaoh’s mummified body.

Archaeologists believe the first tomb was emptied six years after the funeral due to a flood and was moved to a second.

Dr. Litherland believes that the second tomb is located below 23-meter (75 feet) pile of limestone, ash, rubble and muddy plasters, which was designed by the ancient Egyptians to look like part of a mountain in the western valleys of Theban necropolis near the town of Luxor.

The first was located behind a waterfall and is thought to be flooded as a result.

When Egyptologists sought the original tomb, they found a posthumous inscription showing that the content could be moved second nearby, by the wife of Tutmos II and Hatsheput on the half -sister.

The British-Egyptian team is now working to discover the tomb by hand after attempts to insert it were considered “too dangerous”.

“We need to be able to take the whole thing for about another month,” said Dr. Litherland.

The crew found the first tomb in an area connected with the holiday sites of royal women, but when they entered the funeral chamber, they found it decorated – the sign of Pharaoh.

“Part of the ceiling was still intact: a blue-painted yellow-starred ceiling on it. And blue-painted yellow-starred ceilings are found only in the tombs of Kings,” said Dr. Litherland.

He said to Newshour program of BBC Earlier this week, he felt overwhelmed by the find.

“The emotion of entering these things is just an extraordinary bewilderment, because when you come across something you do not expect to find, it’s emotionally extremely turbulent,” he said.

Tutmos II is best known for being the husband of Queen Hatshepsut, considered one of the largest Pharaohs in Egypt and one of the few female pharaohs who ruled on their own.

Thutmose II is the ancestor of Tutankhamun, whose reign is thought to be from about 1493 to 1479 BC.