The historically important reveal is said to mark the end of a search for the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty — which ran from approximately 1550 BC to 1292 BC. The finding comes more than one hundred years after King Tut’s remains were discovered in 1922, CBS News reported.

This is the first time archaeologists found a royal tomb since the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.

The ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, one of Tutankhamun's ancestors, who lived nearly 3,500 years ago, has been excavated by a joint Egyptian-British mission near the Valley of the Kings in southern Egypt.