The rare inscription refers to Ramesses III, who is considered the last pharaoh of the New Kingdom to have wielded substantial power. The inscription was carved into a rock face southeast of the ...

prominent rock face." Zahi Hawass, a former minister of antiquities in Egypt who is working with researchers in Jordan, said the inscription gives the name of Ramesses III and calls him "Sa-Re ...

Now displayed vertically, this huge piece of carved granite is the sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III. This effigy of the king shows him in the form of an Egyptian god Sokar-Osiris who protected the ...