When he entered the burial chamber, he saw a ceiling painted with scenes from the Amduat, a sacred text reserved for kings, confirming its royal owner. Litherland emerged from the tomb in tears.

Thutmose II died 3,500 years ago and his tomb was thought to be at the other end of the mountain near the Valley of the Kings.

Amduat fragment found in the tomb of Thutmose II (New Kingdom Research Foundation/PA) Thutmose II was the husband as well as the half-brother of Hatshepsut, considered one of Egypt’s greatest ...