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The year was 1293 BCE, the fourth month of Shemu, the harvest season.

Maybe late June or early July in the modern Western calendar.

The king of Egypt, Setti I, was travelling.

As far as the pharaohs go, Setti was a bit of a nomad. If you chart his monuments

on a map, they cover a wide area of Egypt and the surrounding lands. We have papyrus documents

from the royal palace that mention SETI travelling up and down the river, especially to the Nile

Delta near the Mediterranean

coast. We have inscriptions at quarries, where SETI went with huge workforces to extract

stone. In the eastern hills, there are records of SETI visiting the mining country,

leading an expedition to acquire gold.

And up and down the river, you can find monuments that testify to SETI's work.

Then there is the foreign component.

We have the military records at Karnak that describe SETI's campaigns across the Sinai

peninsula into southern Kanan, Lebanon, and north

to Syria. Some of these wars are documented by stone steeli erected in the very same lands.

The military records also indicate that Ceti went west to the edges of the Delta and the Libyan desert. Finally, we have

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