Dr. Campbell Price

We know this on the north wall of the outside of the main temple of Amun-e-Karna.

Yes.

My gosh.

And often it's missed by tourists.

They're impressed by the hypostyle hall and what's going on inside.

But if you step outside, you see an absolutely incredible depiction of military engagements where, you know, Seti I is leading the

his troops into battle along the ways of Horus.

So this is up northeast into the Levant.

And so there is, again, there's a lot of trying to control these ping pong states to try and get them back under Egyptian control.

And where in some cases, especially when it comes to the Hittites, you get the impression that Seti I...

will let some he picks his battles quite literally and he lets some sleeping dogs lie where maybe prince rameses who may actually be involved he may be as a teenager physically be involved on campaign

you get the sense maybe Seti the first stops short where Ramesses II wants to continue and push further when eventually he becomes king.

Indeed.

So people hear Battle of Kadesh, and if they know anything about ancient warfare, they think of Ramesses II.

But the grudge with Kadesh definitely dates back to the reign of Seti I. So Kadesh is in what is now modern Syria.

So it's far from Egypt.

You have to take...

several weeks to go there by foot with a big army.

But that's what Seti does.

He goes, he campaigns there.