First pharaoh’s tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun’s
Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of the Pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was discovered more than a century ago.
The tomb of King Thutmose II is the last undiscovered royal tomb of the 18th Egyptian dynasty.
A British Egyptian team has positioned it in the western valley of Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor. Researchers believe that the burial chamber of the 18th Dynasty pharaohs is about 2 kilometers away and closer to the Valley of Kings.
The crew found it in the area associated with the resting place of the royal women, but when they entered the tomb chamber they found it adorned – the Pharaoh’s logo.
“A part of the ceiling is still intact: the blue ceiling has yellow stars. The blue ceiling and the ceiling with yellow stars are only found in the king’s grave,” said Dr. Mission Dr Piers Litherland.
He told this BBC’s new shark program At the moment, he felt overwhelmed.
“The emotion into these things is just an extremely confusing one because when you come across something you didn’t think of it, it’s really turbulent.”
“When I came out, my wife was waiting outside and the only thing I could do was cry.”
Dr. Lissan said the discovery solved the mystery of the graves of the early 18 dynasties.
Researchers found that the mummy remains of Thutmose II were found in the mummy ruins two centuries ago, but its original cemetery was never found.
Thutmose II was the ancestor of Tutanhan and was believed to have ruled around 1493-1479 BC. In 1922, British archaeologists discovered Tutanhan’s tomb.
Thutmose II is known for being the husband of Queen Hatshepsut, who is considered one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs and one of the few female judges who ruled with his own rights.
Dr. Letherland said the grave’s “large staircase and a very large descending corridor” suggests grand.
“It took us a long time to get through all of this,” he said.
“Only after climbing through the 10m (32ft) passage we entered the top of the burial room with a small 40cm gap.”
There they found Amduat’s blue ceiling and decoration of the scene, a religious text reserved for the king. That was another key sign of their discovery of the King’s tomb, Dr. Lissac said.
They started working to clean up the debris – expecting that they would find the buried wreckage below.
But, “the grave turned out to be completely empty,” Dr. Lisca said. “Not because it was robbed, but because it was deliberately emptied.”
Then they figured out that the grave was flooded – “It was built under the waterfall” – and only a few years later the King’s funeral, the contents of which were moved to another location in ancient times.
It was by screening the limestone in the room that they found fragments of alabaster jars, which were inscribed with the inscriptions of the names Thutmose II and Hatshepsut.
Dr. Litherland said the fragments of these alabaster “maybe they broke when the grave was moved.”
“And thankfully, they actually did break a thing or two because that’s how we found out who it was to the grave.”
Artifacts are the first object associated with Thutmose II burial.
Dr. Lissan said his team had a rough idea of the second cemetery and that it still stayed intact There is a treasure.
The discovery of the tomb of the Pharaoh was over 12 years in the joint team of Dr. Letherland’s New Kingdom Research Foundation and Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
The team had previously excavated 54 graves in the west of Theban Mountain in Luxor, and established more than 30 identities as royal wives and court women.
“This is the first royal tomb to be discovered since the groundbreaking discovery of the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun in 1922,” said Sherif Fathy, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities.
“This is an extraordinary moment for Egyptology and a broad understanding of our shared human story.”
