Most of the KV35 mummies were removed from the tomb and taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but Amenhotep II’s body remained in situ. In 1901 thieves broke into the tomb.

Archaeologists in Egypt have just uncovered the tomb of an ancient pharaoh for the first time since the discovery of King Tut's burial in 1922. Very near the 100th anniversary of that historic ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it. Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

Thutmose II’s tomb has been labelled the first, ... Amenhotep II, by linking him to his male ancestors. In many cases, Hatshepsut’s name was replaced with that of Thutmose II, ...

However, that was not always the case, such as the example demonstrated in Amenhotep III’s tomb, ... KV23, is, like KV62, entered from the east, as is the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV 35).

DNA testing on ancient remains has shown that Tutankhamun’s mother was another woman found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, making Nefertiti his stepmother. Nicholas Reeves, ...

Amenhotep II, Tut's great-great-grandfather, is buried nearby. When archaeologists entered their tomb, they were met with not just one body but several, with details one in particular shocking ...

Thutmose II’s mummy was discovered in 1881 but his original tomb was unknown until now. Wikimedia. Upon his death, his wife Hatshepsut became the sixth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty – and ...

A more controversial theory, first publicized in 2003, claimed she was one of three unnamed mummies found within the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep II. Both theories have been dismissed by Egypt’s ...

Years after the cache of mummies in Amenhotep II’s tomb was revealed, Howard Carter, renowned for discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, relocated nine identified mummies – including those of Kings Thutmose ...