Psamtik II is both a dynamic warrior…

Psamtik II is both a dynamic warrior pharaoh as well as a prolific builder in his brief six-year reign.

A significant Saite temple is likely built by Psamtik II and his son Apries at the village of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, which lies equidistant from Sebennytos and Behbeit El-Hagar in the Lower Nile Delta.

Officials from the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt will observe "an extraordinary number of pharaonic building elements of granite and turquoise reused in modern buildings" at this site; this discovery will subsequentlybe confirmed by Nestor L'Hôte in 1828 who counts more than one hundred and twenty granite columns built into this village's mosque alone.

A one point eight meter-long fragment of red granite with the name of Psamtik II and a door lintel of Apries will also be seen at El-Mahalla El-Kubra.