Pharaoh Seti 1st; Tomb's seal: The scarab and the ram headed the Energy of Khnum. Menmaatre Seti I, a pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, (1290 BC to 1279). Seti was the son of Ramses I and father of Ramses II. Seti's well preserved tomb (KV17) was found in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, in the Valley of the Kings;