Over 3,000 years have pᴀssed since Seti I ruled Egypt at the height of its imperial glory—yet his face, remarkably preserved, still stares back at us through the veil of millennia. Not a statue. Not a carving. But his actual face.
Seti, whose name means “He of the god Set,” presided over a golden era of monumental temples and sweeping military campaigns. And in death, he became the embodiment of a craft perfected: the sacred science of mummification.
His skin, blackened not by flame but by ancient chemistry, tells a deeper tale. A reaction between natron salts and organic matter created a preservation so refined that modern scientists still marvel.
He lies still… not burnt, but brilliantly embalmed—an eternal sentinel of a world lost to time.
The father of Ramses the Great.
A masterwork of New Kingdom mortuary skill.
A face that endures—unlike any other.