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Who Was Thutmose II?
Aidan Dodson explores the family history of this short-lived king, and how the discovery of his tomb sheds light on the burials of the early New Kingdom pharaohs.
Aakheperenra Thutmose II is not one of the better-known pharaohs, overshadowed by his father Thutmose I, his half-sister Hatshepsut, and his son Thutmose III. Aakheperkara, the first Thutmose, had ascended the throne c.1504 BC as successor to the apparently childless Amenhotep I. Nothing is known about Thutmose’s claim to the throne, but he may have been a descendant of an earlier king, perhaps via the mysterious Prince Ahmose-Sipair, a possible brother of Ahmose I. The length of his reign is unclear, but Thutmose I was responsible for extending Egyptian control up to the Euphrates in northern Syria, and between the Fourth and Fifth Cataracts in Upper Nubia.
Thutmose I had at least two
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