Recent DNA analysis sponsored by the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass published in February 2010, identified The Elder Lady in a side chamber of Amenhotep II's tomb ( KV35 ) as Queen Tiye .< ref name =" autogenerated640 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

While the decorations of Horemheb's KV57 tomb walls was still unfinished upon his death, this situation is not unprecedented: Amenhotep II's tomb was also not fully completed when he was buried but this ruler enjoyed a reign of 26 Years.

It is still possible to estimate when Thutmose II's reign would have begun by means of a heliacal rise of Sothis in Amenhotep I's reign, which would give him a reign from 1493 BC to 1479 BC, although uncertainty about how to interpret the rise also permits a date from 1513 BC to 1499 BC, and uncertainty about how long Thutmose I ruled could also potentially place his reign several years earlier still.

10056, which dates to sometime after Amenhotep II's tenth year, refers to a king's son and setem-priest Amenhotep.

This Amenhotep might also be attested in a stele from Amenhotep II's temple at Giza, however the stele's name has been defaced so that positive identification is impossible.

Webensenu's name is otherwise attested on a statue of Amenhotep's chief architect, Minmose, and his canopic jars and a funerary statue have been found in Amenhotep II's tomb.

10056, Amenemhat would also be Amenhotep II's son.

10056, Aakheperure would also have been Amenhotep II's son.

The length of his reign is indicated by a wine jar inscribed with the king's prenomen found in Amenhotep II's funerary temple at Thebes ; it is dated to this king's highest known date — his Year 26 — and lists the name of the pharaoh's vintner, Panehsy.

A stele, originally from Elephantine and now on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, recording Amenhotep II's successful campaign against Syria, and dedicating war booty and prisoners to the Temple of Khnum.

Amenhotep II's cartouche showing later damage and a variation of his nomen ( from Karnak )

They had been re-buried in Amenhotep II's tomb by the 21st Dynasty High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem II, during Siamun's reign, to protect them from tomb robbers.

The most detailed and balanced discussion on the chronology, events, and impact of Amenhotep II's reign was published by Peter Der Manuelian, in a 1987 book on this king.

The document, which dates to " Year 23 IV Akhet 1, the day of the festival " of Amenhotep II's accession to power, is a copy of a personal letter which the king composed himself to Usersatet, his viceroy of Kush ( Nubia ).

Thutmose IV was born to Amenhotep II and Tiaa but was not actually the crown prince and Amenhotep II's chosen successor to the throne.

His mummy was found in the royal cache of Amenhotep II's tomb KV35 in 1898.

* March-Victor Loret discovers Amenhotep II's mummy in his KV35 tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings within the original sarcophagus, together with a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II and Ramesses III, IV and VI.

Amenhotep II's mummy was still located in his royal sarcophagus but the tomb also proved to hold a cache of several of the most important New Kingdom Pharaohs such as Thutmose IV, Amenhotep III and Ramesses III.

Her mummy was identified as The Elder Lady found in the Tomb of Amenhotep II ( KV35 ) in 2010.

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association </ cite > pp. 640-641 </ ref > Originally Discovered In 1898 by Victor Loret KV35 yielded a cache of royal mummies, including that of Amenhotep III.

Tiye's mummy was discovered in an opposite side chamber to Amenhotep III in KV35.

Genetic tests published in February 2010 have confirmed that the body found buried in tomb KV55 was the father of Tutankhamun, spouse of the Younger Lady of KV35, and the son of Amenhotep III and queen Tiye.

In 1898 it was located along with eighteen other mummies in the mummy cache found in the tomb of Amenhotep II ( KV35 ) by Victor Loret.

Tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings ( Luxor, Egypt ) is the tomb of Amenhotep II.

In 1898, it was discovered along with 18 others in a mummy cache within the ( KV35 ) tomb of Amenhotep II.

In March 1898, he discovered KV35, the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of the Kings.

" Although several twigs of dill were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, they reported the earliest archeological evidence for its cultivation comes from late Neolithic lakeshore settlements in Switzerland.

* c. 1348 BC – 1327 BC: State ship, detail of a tempera fascimile by Charles K. Wilkinson of a cow painting in the tomb of the governor of Nubia Amenhotep Huy in Qurnet Murai was made.

In the damaged tomb ( TT188 ) of the royal butler Parennefer, the new king Amenhotep IV is accompanied by a royal woman, and this lady is thought to be an early depiction of Nefertiti.

In the tomb of the vizier Ramose, Nefertiti is shown standing behind Amenhotep IV in the Window of Appearance during the reward ceremony for the vizier.

A Senet game from the tomb of Amenhotep III — the Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Her gilded burial shrine ( showing her with Akhenaten ) ended up in KV55 while shabtis belonging to her were found in Amenhotep III's WV22 tomb.

British scholars Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton once stated that " it seems very unlikely that her mummy could be the so-called ' Elder Lady ' in the tomb of Amenhotep II.

Also, that Amenhotep IV's tomb inscribed five names he gave himself and one of them, Golden Horus, proves that he was crowned on the bank of the Nile, his father's favorite domain.

Zahi Hawass displays a Ptolemaic statue discovered at Taposiris Magna on May 8, 2010Hawass spearheaded a movement to return many prominent unique and / or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Dendera zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf ( the architect of the Khafra Pyramid ), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries.

Reliefs from the wall of the temple of Soleb in Nubia and scenes from the Theban tomb of Kheruef, Steward of the King's Great Wife, Tiye, depict Amenhotep as a visibly weak and sick figure.

In the tomb in the temple, the scene shows the raising of the djed pillar taking placing in the morning of Amenhotep III's third Heb-Sed, which took place in his thirty seventh regnal year.

In the case of Tiye, evidence found in tomb WV22 suggests that Amenhotep III prepared her burial in his own tomb.

( These might be votive offerings, similar to figurines of Tiye found in the tomb of Amenhotep III.

However, genetic studies of the Egyptian royal mummies, led by Zahi Hawass and Carsten Pusch, have now established that Tutankhamun ’ s biological mother was KV35YL, the " Younger Lady " discovered in the mummy cache in the tomb of Amenhotep II.

Yuya was an influential nobleman at the royal court of Amenhotep III who was given the rare privilege of having a tomb built for his use in the royal Valley of the Kings presumably because he was the father of Tiye, Amenhotep's chief Queen.

He also built many temples in Egypt and built a tomb for himself in the Valley of the Kings ; he is the first king confirmed to have done this ( though Amenhotep I may have preceded him ).

While Amenhotep I's highest attested official date is only his Year 10, Manetho's data is confirmed by information from a passage in the tomb autobiography of a magician named Amenemhet.

According to the tomb texts of Ahmose, son of Ebana, Amenhotep later sought to expand Egypt's border southward into Nubia and he led an invasion force which defeated the Nubian army.

Amenhotep's court astronomer Amenemheb took credit for creating this device in his tomb biography, although the oldest surviving mechanism dates to the reign of Amenhotep III.

Amenhotep I was the first king of Egypt to separate his mortuary temple from his tomb, probably to keep tomb robbers from finding his tomb as easily.