Back in 2022, in a valley off the tourist track known as Wadi "C," The New Kingdom Research Foundation Mission led by Dr. Piers Litherland, in affiliation with the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University, in a joint venture with the Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities in the Western Wadis. Wow, that's a mouthful, but luckily they still had time left over to excavate! The excavation is not done, so details are still to come.
This discovery has been a noticeable missing link for more than a century, particularly in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. The missing tomb of Thutmosis II would be the earliest in that valley though the original tomb carved for his father Thutmosis I by Ineni is unknown a good candidate may be the Valley of Kings tomb KV20 generally associated with his daughter Hatshepsut the sister-wife of Thutmosis II would mean that Hatshepsut added herself including a recarved quartzite sarcophagus for her father to her father's tomb and with only one foundation deposit attributed to Hatshepsut no telling when the tomb was at least partly carved and if the deposit was added later like Hatshepsut's mummy. Being close to KV 20 tomb KV 60, I have also wondered if it was the tomb described by Ineni, with no one seeing no one hearing, and not terribly impressive, which may have been why Hatshepsut desired to rebury her father with more dignity. Or maybe it was carved as a needed storeroom for the valley workmen to carve KV20.
Valley of the Kings tomb KV42 has also been suggested. Although the foundation deposits say a queen of Thutmosis III, Hatshepset Meryet-ra. Non-royal canopic material found in the tomb indicates an inappropriate occupant of a royal tomb. Howard Carter believed that this material had been washed into the tomb and that nothing of Thutmosis II's funerary furniture had been found there.
I must say, I thought there was a good chance Thutmose II's tomb would be discovered in the foundations of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple at Deir el-Bahri; perhaps it will be there, having been relocated from the flooded Wadi "C" tomb.
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5. Thutmosis II
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