According to Jordan’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, an inscription featuring the name of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses III (r. 1186–1155 BCE) was discovered carved into a desert rock face near Wadi Rum in southern Jordan. In one column, the title “Son of Ra, Lord of the Akhu (transfigured spirits)” precedes a cartouche bearing the pharaoh’s birth name; in the second, his throne name is preceded by the title “King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands.” Cartouches belonging to Ramesses III have been discovered in various places outside Egypt, along an extensive trade route that joined […]
