The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings. The discovery is the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty,

The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his death, was the first excavation of a royal tomb near the Valley of the Kings since 1922.

Renowned Egyptian archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass has claimed "this will not be the last one", as experts announced the discovery of a second tomb belonging to King Thutmose II. The remarkable find comes just days after archaeologists unearthed the pharaoh's first tomb in Egypt's Theban Necropolis.