Merneptah is well known to BAR readers as the pharaoh who set up a stela (or stele) that contains the earliest undisputed reference to Israel. But he has been in the news again lately thanks to the enormous size of his sarcophagus. Merneptah generally doesn’t seem as popular or flashy as his father, Ramesses … Continue reading Pharaoh Merneptah’s Massive Burial Box