The last missing royal tomb of Ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, belonging to a pharaoh named Thutmose II who ruled approximately 3,500 years ago, was announced by a joint British-Egyptian archaeological team in February 2025, in the first discovery of a pharaonic tomb near the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun's was found by Howard Carter in November 1922.

The last missing royal tomb of Ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, belonging to a pharaoh named Thutmose II who ruled approximately 3,500 years ago, was announced by a joint British-Egyptian archaeological team in February 2025, in the first discovery of a pharaonic tomb near the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun's was found by Howard Carter in November 1922.

The Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt ruled the country between approximately 1550 and 1292 BCE, a period during which Egypt reached the greatest territorial extent, wealth, and cultural influence in its recorded history. The dynasty produced some of the most famous names in ancient history: Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who ruled as king; Thutmose III, whose military campaigns extended Egyptian power across the Levant; Akhenaten, who briefly…