Thutmose II

American  

Or Thotmes II,

noun

1. flourished c1495 b.c., Egyptian ruler, son of Thutmose I, half brother of Thutmose III.

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Example Sentences

Pieces of pottery and other evidence found inside the sprawling underground tomb revealed that it belonged to Thutmose II, a young pharaoh who died an untimely death more than three millennia ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its discovery helps researchers pinpoint when ancient Egyptians began burying their royals in the Valley of the Kings—after Thutmose II’s death.

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Archaeologists who found the tomb are convinced that it belonged to Thutmose II because inscribed alabaster fragments revealed that his wife and half-sister, Hatshepsut—who became the most powerful female pharaoh in Egyptian history after his death—built the burial chamber in his honor.

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All the goods and furniture Thutmose II would have been buried with, as well as his body, were missing from the site.

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A mummy on display at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, found in 1881, is ascribed to Thutmose II, but that individual died between the ages of 30 and 40 and was, some scholars contend, too old to be Thutmose II, who assumed the throne in his mid-to-late teens and reigned for as few as three years.

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