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Thursday, February 20, 2025
On Wednesday or Thursday, Egyptologists discovered a tomb in Egypt. It was the tomb of King Thutmose II. His remains had been located two centuries prior but his original resting place had not been uncovered. They had previously thought the tomb as located somewhere else.
Egypt’s minister of tourism and antiquities Sherif Fathy said, “This is the first royal tomb to be discovered since the ground-breaking find of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in 1922. It is an extraordinary moment for Egyptology and the broader understanding of our shared human story.” said .
Dr Piers Litherland, who was the field director of the mission to uncover the tomb, said, “Part of the ceiling was still intact: a blue-painted ceiling with yellow stars on it. And blue-painted ceilings with yellow stars are only found in kings’ tombs. […] The emotion of getting into these things is just one of extraordinary bewilderment because when you come across something you’re not expecting to find, it’s emotionally extremely turbulent really. And when I came out, my wife was waiting outside and the only thing I could do was burst into tears.”
Litherland also said “This discovery solves a great mystery of ancient Egypt: the location of the tombs of the early 18th dynasty kings. The tomb of this ancestor of Tutankhamun had never been found because it was always thought to be at the other end of the mountain near the Valley of the Kings.”
