Egypt

Kubban Stela of Ramesses II

After earlier expeditions failed to find water on the gold-mining road to Wadi Allaqi, officials commemorate a successful well as a personal triumph of Ramesses II's foresight over a desert that had defeated his predecessors' engineers.

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