Photo: Ancient Pharaoh Temple Discovered Inside Egypt Mosque

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Sections of columns and elaborately inscribed reliefs from an ancient Egyptian temple were recently discovered behind the walls of a mosque in Luxor.

The oval relief, or cartouche, at center depicts the name of Ramses II, the pharaoh in whose name the temple was built around 1250 B.C.

Photograph courtesy Zahi Hawass, Supreme Council of Antiquities

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