Stock Photo - Reconstruction of the Mummy of Menmaatre Seti I; pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II. dates of his reign are unclear; possibly 1294 BC to 1279 BC. Seti's well preserved tomb (KV17) was found in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, in the Valley of the Kings. Seti's mummy was discovered in 1881, in the mummy cache (tomb DB320) at Deir el-Bahri, and has since been kept at the Cairo Museum. Seti I appears to have been less than forty years old when he died unexpectedly. His mummy was found decapitated, but this was likely caused after his death by tomb robbers. The Amun priest carefully reattached his head to his body with the use of linen cloths.