the ancient Quarries - a visit to the extensive and atmospheric channels and tunnels carved out over the centuries is well worth undertaking. Most of the quarries are to be found on the eastern bank. Also to be seen are a large number of rock stelae, inscriptions and graffiti
33 known rock chapels of 18th Dynasty date, functioning as cenotaphs to various high officials who worked on quarrying expeditions to the area, exist on the western bank with several royal cenotaphs Seti I, Ramesses II, Merneptah, and together with... to the north...
the Speos of Horemheb - a small royal shrine hewn from the rock and dedicated to the late 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Horemheb and six other Egyptian deities. The rock temple consists of 4 pillars across its façade, a narrow transverse hall behind these, and a small sanctuary inner room with the rock-carved and seated cult images of the 7 deities herein venerated located in a niche in the rear wall Amun, Mut, Khonsu, Sobek - the local crocodile god, Taweret, Thoth and the Pharaoh Horemheb. Another shrine of Horemheb's building lies 450 m to the north, featuring a number of granite columns, but this is largely unexplored and inaccessible.
