Amazingly, these two pictured inscriptions were left behind over 500 years apart, the left inscription, the oldest of the inscriptions, having been raised by Egypt's Rameses II, while the right one was left behind by king Esarhaddon of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Later regimes who followed in the footsteps of Rameses include the Neo-Babylonians, the Romans, the Mamluks of Egypt and Napoleon, during his Egyptian Campaign.
3300 years of Lebanese history boiled down in these monumental inscriptions.
by Bnedem
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I’ll say this: This is the most underrated artefact in human history. Yeah I said it. I cannot think of anywhere else where such a thing has ever happened.
The great public toilet wall of kings. Napoleon was here…
I’m surprised it lasted that whole time. I wonder if it was sort of well-known in the ancient world and so conquerors and generals made it a point to visit it. Really kinda neat how “popular” it was.