General view of the Valley Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari on January 8, 2025 in Luxor, Egypt. The country's antiquities authorities announced a series of archaeological discoveries from a research mission conducted starting in September 2022, including the discovery of the remains of Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) 
Located west of the Valley of the Kings, Thutmose II's tomb was the last lost tomb of the kings of Egypt's 18th dynasty, and the first royal tomb discovered since King Tutankhamun's in 1922, the ministry said.
Archaeologists were able to identify the tomb due to alabaster vessels found on site and inscribed with the name of King Thutmose II and his wife Queen Hatshepsut, one of a small handful of women to have ruled Egypt.
They also found pieces of his funerary furniture, as well as pieces of mortar with blue inscriptions, yellow stars and religious writing, the statement said.
However, due to flooding soon after the king's death, the tomb was generally not well preserved, the ministry statement added. There were indications that most of its contents had been moved, and work to recover them was under way, it said.
(Writing by Nafisa EltahirEditing by Aidan Lewis)