Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth ... the area and the reign of King ...

But in 1830 the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, donated one of the two obelisks ... The final two date from the reign of Ptolemy IX Soter II (r. 116-107, 88-81 B.C.), who commissioned ...