Pharaoh: Archaeologists may have found second Thutmose II tomb

The potential find comes just days after the announcement of the discovery of King Thutmose II's tomb.

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The potential find comes just days after Piers Litherland announced the discovery of a tomb more than a century since Tutankhamun's was revealed.

Mr Litherland told the Observer he suspects this second site will hold the pharaoh's mummified body.

Archaeologists believe the first tomb was emptied six years after burial, due to a flood, and relocated to a second.

Mr Litherland thinks the second tomb lies below a 23-metre (75 ft) man-made pile of limestone, ash, rubble and mud plaster, that was designed by ancient Egyptians to look like part of a mountain in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor.

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