Beside the stone box was a wooden one, which contained the pharaoh's inscription.

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II has long eluded archaeologists. But a recent discovery may finally help them to uncover it.

Archaeologists at the Deir el-Bahari site in central Egypt have found a 3,500-year-old stone chest alongside a wooden box believed to have ties to Pharaoh Thutmose II.

The ruler who was only 13 when he married his half-sibling, Hatshepsut. Intermarriage was a common tradition among Egyptian royalty to safeguard the bloodline. Though Thutmose died three years into his reign, Hatsheput went on to become one of the most powerful queens in Egyptian history.

His mummified body was originally found with a cache of other royal mummies, including the famed Mortuary Tomb of Hatshepsut, at Dei

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