Around 1200 BC, an inscription named the ancient Egyptian city of Mesen; 3,200 years later it may have helped archaeologists locate the lost city

• A view of the inscriptions and city view of MesenFor more than three millennia, the name Mesen survived in ancient records without a confirmed place on the map.
• Now, a battered stone inscription found in Egypt's northern Sinai may have given archaeologists their strongest clue yet to the city's whereabouts, states an online report by Live Science.
• As per the report the discovery was made at Tell Abu Seifi, an archaeological site near the Suez Canal, close to the northern Sinai Desert and the eastern Nile Delta.