Amenhotep II’s Lineage: Egypt’s 18th Dynasty King
The French excavator Victor Loret found the mummy of Amenhotep II in 1898, still resting in its own sarcophagus in his tomb (KV35) in the Valley of the Kings. At that time, before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, he was the only king whose mummy had survived the vicissitudes of continuous theft and desecration and remained in its own sarcophagus in his own tomb.
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