A British archaeologist consents his team may have establish a second tomb in Egypt beextfinisheding to King Thutmose II.
The potential discover comes equitable days after Dr Piers Litherland proclaimd the discovery of the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was uncovered over a century ago.
Dr Litherland telderly the Observer he doubts this second site will helderly the pharaoh’s mummified body.
Archaeologists consent the first tomb was emptied six years after burial, due to a flood, and transferd to a second.
Dr Litherland slimks the second tomb lies below a 23-metre (75 ft) man-made pile of limestone, ash, rubble and mud plaster, that was portrayed by elderly-styleed Egyptians to see appreciate part of a mountain in the Westrict Valleys of the Theban Necropolis proximate the city of Luxor.
The first was discoverd behind a waterdescfinish, and it is thought to have flooded as a result.
When Egyptologists were searching for the initial tomb, they establish a posthumous inscription that recommendd the encountered could have been transferd to a second location proximateby, by Thutmose II’s wife and half-sister Hatsheput.
The British-Egyptian team are now laboring to uncover the tomb by hand, after finisheavors to tunnel into it were deemed as being “too hazardous”.
“We should be able to consent the whole slimg down in about another month,” Dr Litherland shelp.
The crew establish the first tomb in an area associated with the resting places of royal women, but when they got into the burial chamber they establish it decorated – the sign of a pharaoh.
“Part of the ceiling was still intact: a blue-decorateed ceiling with yellow stars on it. And blue-decorateed ceilings with yellow stars are only establish in kings’ tombs,” shelp Dr Litherland.
He telderly the BBC’s Newshour programme earlier this week that he felt overwhelmed by the discover.
“The emotion of getting into these slimgs is equitable one of exceptional besavageerment becaemploy when you come apass someslimg you’re not anticipateing to discover, it’s emotionassociate excessively turbulent reassociate,” he shelp.
Thutmose II is best understandn for being the husband of Queen Hatshepsut, pondered as one of Egypt’s fantasticest pharaohs and one of the scant female pharaohs who ruled in her own right.
Thutmose II was an ancestor of Tutankhamun, whose reign is consentd to have been from about 1493 to 1479 BC. Tutankhamun’s tomb was establish by British archaeologists in 1922.
