{"id":192620,"date":"2025-03-02T02:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-its-the-biggest-egyptian-tomb-discovery-in-a-century-who-was-thutmose-ii\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T02:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T00:56:51","slug":"egypt-its-the-biggest-egyptian-tomb-discovery-in-a-century-who-was-thutmose-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-its-the-biggest-egyptian-tomb-discovery-in-a-century-who-was-thutmose-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: It&#8217;s the Biggest Egyptian Tomb Discovery in a Century. Who Was Thutmose II?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Archaeologists in Egypt have made an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/egypt-discovery-king-thutmose-ii-ancient-royal-tomb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exciting discovery<\/a>: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-queen-who-would-be-king-130328511\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Hatshepsut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The remarkable find is located in the Western Valley (a burial ground for queens rather than kings), near the complex of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.templeofhatshepsut.uw.edu.pl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deir el-Bahari<\/a>, which houses the funerary temple of Hatshepsut. Both of us worked together as archaeologists at this spectacular site some 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Thutmose II&#8217;s tomb has been labelled the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502250011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Egypt have made an exciting discovery: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, Queen Hatshepsut. The remarkable find is located in the Western Valley (a burial ground for queens rather than kings), near the complex of Deir el-Bahari, which houses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8645,16979,15761,4697,415,6639,257,254,50761,19054],"class_list":["post-192620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biggest","tag-century","tag-discovery","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thutmose","tag-tomb"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}