Excavations at Tell Al-Abqain in the Nile Delta have revealed a New Kingdom fortress with mudbrick homes, planned streets, grain silos, pottery ovens, and the deliberate burial of a horse, along with a limestone stela depicting a bound Libyan prisoner.
Nice stela. A bound Libyan, carved in limestone for eternity. Three centuries later Libyans were pharaohs — Shoshenq took the throne, and the Delta fortress became their garrison. Empires adore monuments to enemies they’re about to lose to. Every wall in that dig was a budget line, and the horse got a formal burial while conscripts rotted. Nothing changes.