Egyptologist Piers Litherland and his team recently announced that tomb C4, which was first uncovered two years, ago has artifacts within it to conclusively attribute the tomb as belonging to pharaoh Thutmose II.
Thutmose II was long suspected of having an undiscovered tomb, and this new discovery fills in an important gap of history for 18th Dynasty Egypt.
But the tomb itself was not the final resting place for Thutmose II, as archaeological evidence indicates it had flooded a few years after interment of the king, and that his body must have been moved elsewhere.
Litherland claims that another tomb will hold the undisturbed burial of Thutmose II, and this video examines the evidence to determine if that may in fact be the case.
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Thanks to the National Egyptian Museum of Egyptian Civilization for the images of mummies
https://nmec.gov.eg
Thanks to Chris Naunton for background information on royal mummy caches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXq_mcFhc0
Image Sources:
Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
BBC "Archaeologists may have found pharaoh's second tomb"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5elpzy9yo
Quotations Sources:
The Guardian “You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/22/you-dream-about-such-things-brit-who-discovered-missing-pharaohs-tomb-may-have-unearthed-another
C. N. Reeves, “Valley of the Kings: The decline of a royal necropolis” Kegan Paul International, New York, 1990.
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Second Tomb
02:55 Fake Mummy
05:06 Personalized Coffins
08:13 Mummy Dockets
10:32 Relocation
11:56 Treasure