Fourth Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty (c. 1493/1482 – 1479 BC)
An Egyptian pharaoh so thoroughly eclipsed by his father, his wife, and his son that almost nothing of his own reign survived the historical record — and even his body's location remains contested millennia later.
Thutmose II ruled as the fourth pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, though scholars can't agree whether that reign stretched 14 years (1493–1479 BC) or merely three (around 1482–1479 BC). Few monuments mention him. He died before turning 30. His tomb, built in the Western Wadis near the Valley of the Queens, sat beneath waterfalls that flooded and damaged it across the centuries; it wasn't discovered until 2022 and confirmed as his in 2025. Ancient priests moved his mummified body, and a corpse recovered from the Royal Cache above Hatshepsut's mortuary temple has been claimed as his — thoug…
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