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The name Thutmose II is read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis II, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek, and derives from Ancient Egyptian: /ḏḥwty.ms/ Djehutymes, meaning "Thoth is born". Thutmose II was the son of Thutmose I and his minor wife, Mutnofret, who was probably a daughter of Ahmose I. [2]
Hatshepsut was born between 1505 and 1495 BC as eldest daughter of Thutmose I and his great royal wife, Ahmose. [11] After her father's death, Hatshepsut was then married to Thutmose II, her half-brother and father's heir, when she was fourteen or fifteen years old.
Although in these later instances Iset is referred to as Great Royal Wife, during the reign of Thutmose II the great royal wife was Hatshepsut. Thutmose II died in 1479 BC and, after his death, Hatshepsut became regent for the young king Thutmose III. Thutmose III became the head of the armies of Egypt as he grew up. Thutmose III and his family ...
Thutmose II was the fourth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. ... Thutmose II's wife, royal consort and later a pharaoh of Egypt herself, were also found in the tomb, confirming its ownership.
The mummy of Thutmose II illustrated in the book "From Pharaoh to Fellah" in 1888. ... identifying him as the “deceased King” as well as inscriptions with the name of his wife and half-sister ...
Thutmose II was an ancestor of Tutankhamun, whose reign is believed to have been from about 1493 to 1479 BC. Tutankhamun's tomb was found by British archaeologists in 1922. First pharaoh's tomb ...
The cliff tomb of Hatshepsut, also known as tomb Wadi A-1, [1] is the tomb quarried for her as the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose II, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. It is located in Wady Sikkat Taqet Zaid, to the west of the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. The tomb is cut into a slot in the vertical cliff face 70 metres (230 ft ...
Thutmose II was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 16th–15th centuries BC whose tomb, also known by its tomb number Wadi C-4, is located in the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud area west of Luxor. [1] The tomb lacks Thutmose's mummy, which was found in 1881 in the Royal Cache, where many royal sarcophagi were moved in ancient times.