Piers Litherland was leading a joint British and Egyptian mission that found the tomb of Thutmose II.

A Scottish archaeologist has found the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh in the first discovery since that of Tutankhamun more than a century ago.

The tomb of Thutmose II, the last king’s tomb to be found from the 18th dynasty, has been located in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis in Egypt.

An ancestor of Tutankhamun, whose tomb was found in 1922, Thutmose II died 3,500 years ago and was thought to be buried at the other end of the mountain near the Valley of the Kings.