The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his death, was the first excavation of a royal tomb near the Valley of the Kings since 1922.

A British-Egyptian team of archeologists have found the first pharaoh's tomb in Egypt since King Tutankhamun's was found in 1922. The newly discovered tomb belonged to King Thutmose II, who reigned from 1493 to 1479 BC.

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's in 1922.