Discovered in 2022, the site is some 1.2 miles away from the Valley of the Kings, where tombs for Thutmose I and III and Hatshepsut were planned. Women of the royal family had been found there, so the initial theory was that this newly found tomb belonged to one of Thutmose’s lesser wives.

Over a century after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, British Egyptologists have made another groundbreaking find — the long-lost burial site of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty who lived nearly 3,

British Egyptologists have revealed the crucial clues which led them to the historic discovery of the 3,500-year-old tomb of King Thutmose II. The site, identified as "Tomb C4", was located about 1.5 miles west of the Valley of the Kings by a UK-Egyptian team led by Professor Piers Litherland from the University of Cambridge.