Archaeologists may have found the second tomb Thutmose II

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

The potential finding occurs only a few days after Dr. Piers Litherland announced the discovery From the first grave of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun was revealed more than a century.

Dr. Litherland He told the observer He suspects that this second site will celebrate the mummified body of the pharaoh.

Archaeologists believe that the first grave emptied six years after burial, due to flood, and moved to a second.

Dr. Litherland believes that the second grave is under a pile of limestone, ashes, debris and mud plaster of 23 meters (75 feet). Necropolis near the city of Luxor.

The first was located behind a waterfall, and it is believed that it was flooded as a result.

When the Egyptologists were looking for the initial grave, they found a posthumous inscription that indicated that the content could have been transferred to a second close location, by Thutmose II and half sister Hatsheput’s wife.

The British-Gipcio team is now working to discover the tomb by hand, after the tunnel attempts were considered “too dangerous.”

“We should be able to knock everything in approximately another month,” said Dr. Litherland.

The crew found the first grave in an area associated with the rest places of the real women, but when they got into the burial chamber, they found it decorated: the sign of a pharaoh.

“Part of the roof was still intact: a blue -painted roof with yellow stars. And blue -painted roofs with yellow stars are only in Kings tombs,” said Dr. Litherland.

He told BBC Newshour program Earlier this week, he felt overwhelmed by the finding.

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

Thutmose II is better known for being Queen Hatshepsut’s husband, considered one of the best pharaohs in Egypt and one of the few pharaohs that ruled in their own right.

Thutmose II was an ancestor of Tutankhamun, whose reign is believed to be approximately 1493 to 1479 a. C. The tomb of Tutankhamun was found by British archaeologists in 1922.