Stone Engravings of Famous Warrior Pharaoh Found in Ancient Egyptian Temple

By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | October 3, 2018 05:57am ET

Stone engravings found in a temple in southern Egypt may reveal new information about a pharaoh named Seti I, who launched a series of military campaigns in North Africa and the Middle East after he became pharaoh in about 1289 or 1288 B.C., several Egyptologists told Live Science.

The inscriptions have both drawings and hieroglyphs on them and one of the inscriptions mentions an elite general in King Tut's army.

Archaeologists with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities discovered the inscriptions while conducting a groundwater-lowering project in Aswan; they found them inside Kom Ombo, a temple dedicated to the god Horus and a crocodile-headed god named Sobek. The temple dates back 2,300 years; the inscriptions may have originally been in an earlier temple, now lost, at Kom Ombo that was located on the same spot as the later temple. [The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth]

"This is an exciting discovery and may be historically important," said Peter Brand, a professor of ancient history at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. One of the inscriptions, which still has yellow paint on it despite the passage of 3,300 years of time, shows Seti I, with images of the king worshiping Sobek and Horus, said Brand, noting that it appears to date to early in Seti I's reign.

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