Yesterday, while preparing his land for agriculture, a local citizen stumbled upon a large block so he immediately contacted the tourism and antiquities police and the ministry of tourism and Antiquities. The large bloc turned to be an ancient Egyptian stela dated to the 26th dynasty. According to Dr. Mostafa Waziry “The stela was safely transferred to Ismailia Museum. The stela is sandstone and it measures 230 cm in length, 103 cm width and 45 cm depth.
The stela depicts a winged sun disc with the cartouch of King “Wah Ib Re†of the 26th Dynasty (664 B.C- 525 B.C).It shows 15 lines of hieroglyphs and it is a boundary stela which the King would erect on his military campaigns to the east.â€
