also two temples from early Egyptian history (New Kingdom until the Roman period), a rock chapel (called rock chapel C), a Greek funeral chapel (formerly called “Roman temple”), two rock stelae of Ramesses III, a rock stele of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, a stele of Diana and the Gemini twins Castor and Pollux and a necropolis from the Greek and Roman periods. These monuments are scattered for about 3 km along the desert and the limestone rocks. Gods The gods are related to the site location and shape of the rocks. The earliest goddess of this site is maybe a lion goddess. From the Fraser Tombs the goddess Hathor, mistress of the valley entrance, is known (time of Menkaura, 4th Dynasty). Starting from the 18th Dynasty the god Amun the foremost lion is adored. The god Sobek, Lord of Behet (Lord of the mouth of the desert path), was added at the 26th Dynasty and became later the main god of the site. Other gods like Thoth, Isis and/or Mut, Osiris, Horus and Khonsu were adored from Greek-Roman times. Mining Like similar sites in the north and south of Akoris, this site was used as a limestone quarry in ancient times. Excavations Records of the site were made during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt. A more comprehensive investigation was made by the German expedition conducted by Karl Richard Lepsius in the 1850s. At the beginning of the 20th century further investigations were made by Ahmed Kamal and Gustave Lefebvre. Since 1981 new comprehensive excavations have been carried out by a Japanese team under H. Kawanishi. They uncovered a fine but fragmentary Middle Kingdom model of a wooden boat. Since 2002, the team has investigated the southern part of the site and uncovered the TIP town. The so-called Fraser Tombs were firstly discovered by the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch in 1853 and firstly described by the British civil engineer George Willoughby Fraser half a century later. See also List of ancient Egyptian sites, including sites of temples References Further reading Description de l’Égypte, Texte, vol. IV, pp. 372 – 377; Antiquités, vol. IV, plates 67.14–67.20. Karl Richard Lepsius, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Text vol. II, pp. 50–54; Tafeln Abth. 6, vol. XII, plates 75.15-75.23. Ahmed Kamal, Fouilles à Tehneh, in: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, vol. 4 (1903), pp. 232–241. Gustave Lefebvre, L. Barry, Rapport sur les fouilles exécutées à