About 500 years after Thutmose II’s death, ancient Egyptian officials of the 21st dynasty realised that his tomb (and that of other royals from the New Kingdom) had become vulnerable to damage ...

Around 500 years after Thutmose II's death, ancient Egyptian officials of the 21st dynasty realized that his tomb (and that of other royals from the New Kingdom) had become vulnerable to damage ...

The last missing tomb of a king from Ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, ... The cache was where many royal mummies were hidden by priests during the 21st Dynasty to protect them from tomb robbers.

These mummies had been collected during the 21st Dynasty (ca. 1070–945 B.C.) by priests who rewrapped and reinterred them in new coffins. Many of the cache’s mummies had been badly damaged by ...

CAIRO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Sunday a number of pharaonic discoveries in Upper Egypt's Luxor Governorate, some of which date back to the ...

Fit for a king Ramesses II was the third king of the 19th dynasty, and his reign — from 1279 to 1213 BC — was the second longest in the history of Egypt. He was known for his victorious ...

Many royal mummies were relocated here for protection from flooding and during the uncertain times of the 21st Dynasty (circa 1077–950 BCE), some 400–500 years after Thutmose II’s original ...