While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and bird excrement off the walls of this ancient Egyptian temple to reveal what it looked like when it was in use some 2,

The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his death, was the first excavation of a royal tomb near the Valley of the Kings since 1922.

An empty tomb, yet a groundbreaking find – archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the tomb of Thutmose II, a ruler overshadowed by his powerful wife, Hatshepsut.