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.

An Egyptian-British team has found the tomb of an ancient pharaoh near the Valley of the Kings. This discovery marks the first pharaoh’s tomb found since 1922, when King Tutankhamun’s tomb was uncovered, reported The Washington Post. The tomb belongs to King Thutmose II, who ruled nearly 3,500 years ago.

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.