‘You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another

The entrance to the tomb of Thutmose II in Luxor in southern Egypt. Photograph: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP/Getty Images

To uncover the location of one long-lost pharaoh’s tomb is a career-defining moment for an archaeologist. But to find a second is the stuff of dreams.

Last week British archaeologist Piers Litherland announced the find of the century – the first discovery of a rock-cut pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.