An overview of the excavation site.

The lost tomb of

Thutmose II

“Getting hard hatted up and exploring the tomb chamber is a long adrenaline burn,” said Dr Judith Bunbury, a Cambridge geo-archaeologist.

Dr Bunbury is Deputy Mission Director of the archaeological project that has discovered a lost tomb of Thutmose II. This is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.

Bryony Smerdon (Former St Edmund’s College Masters student) and Dr Judith Bunbury at the site of the tomb. The entrance to the new tomb is visible just behind Bunbury's left shoulder.
Alabaster fragments from the tomb of Thutmose II.
A fragment of the Amduat in situ in the tomb of Thutmose II.
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