A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission has uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal tomb discovered since that of King Tutankhamen in 1922.  

The roughly 3,500-year-old tomb was found in Luxor, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Tuesday. King Thutmose II was the fourth and final pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th dynasty. His mummy, discovered much earlier in 1881 at another site, is now located at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

The tomb of King Thutmose II was long thought to be located in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, where the tombs of King Tutankhamen, Thutmose I and III and Queen Hatshepsut have been discovered. Yet it was found west of the Valley of the Kings, in the mount of Thebes........

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