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In Greek mythology, Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's epic poem Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War of Troy in its entirety, but specifically the Wrath of Achilles. Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the first century C.E.) state that Achilles was invulnerable on all of his body except for his heel. These legends state that Achilles was killed in battle by an arrow to the heel, and so an Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's only weakness.

Thutmose II (meaning Thoth is Born) was the fourth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He built some minor monuments and initiated at least two minor campaigns but did little else during his rule and was probably strongly influenced by his wife, Hatshepsut. Thutmose II's mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahri Cache above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. His tomb was built under waterfalls in the Western Wadis near the Valley of the Queens, and his mummified body was moved a few years after his burial.