 They are located alongside the massive mud brick structure known as "Shunet ez-Zebib" attributed to the 2nd Dynasty Pharaoh Khasekhemwy.Shunet ez-Zebib is one of several such "enclosure wall" constructions at this site dating back to the 1st Dynasty, and is located nearly one mile from the early Dynastic royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa'ab.On October 31, 2000 the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Yale University Expedition to Abydos, Egypt issued a press release in which they described the discovery of the royal solar boats at Abydos.