Article 6VEZC ‘You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another

‘You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another

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Donna Ferguson
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Archaeologist believes his find of the century' - of Pharaoh Thutmose II - could be surpassed by ongoing excavation

To uncover the location of one long-lost pharaoh's tomb is a career-defining moment for an archaeologist. But to find a second is the stuff of dreams.

Last week British archaeologist Piers Litherland announced the find of the century - the first discovery of a rock-cut pharaoh's tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun's in 1922.

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