Ramses Was Here…

After a semester of studying hieroglyphs in the classroom in Beirut, my students and I took a field trip to Nahr el-Kalb to analyze the hieroglyphs left behind by Ramses the Great on his way to battle the Hittites at Qadesh in “Syria.” Unfortunately, we could only make out a few hieroglyphs, since most of them have disappeared from extensive erosion…