Pharaoh Sety I

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Sety I must be credited with the great amount of restoration of the traditional temples , continuing the efforts of his predecessors .
Everywhere , inscriptions of pre-Amarna pharaohs were restored , and the names and representations of Amun hacked out by Akhenaten were re-carved . He also started his own building program: in the great religious centers of Thebes , Abydos , Memphis , and Heliopolis , new temples were erected and existing ones expanded . Among the latter was the Temple of Seth at Avaris , a city that was soon to become the new Delta residence of the Ramesside rulers . At Karnak , Sety continued the construction of the Great Hypostyle Hall begun by Horemheb , which was connected with his own mortuary temple at Abd el-Qurna , directly opposite to Karnak on the west bank of the Nile .
At Deir el-Bahari , he made some restorations at the Temple of Hatshepsut .
At Abydos , Sety I built a magnificent temple for the god Osiris . The famous King-List in this temple , a list of the royal ancestors participating in the offering cult for Osiris , provides the first evidence that the Amarna Period was completely obliterated from official records . In the list ,