Speos Artemidos - Cats' Cemetery

From the landing place the road to the temple begins by running upstream, and then strikes off to the right towards the desert on an embankment running through fields. In the vicinity is the Cats' Cemetery in which the cats sacred to Pakhet, protective goddess of this region, were buried. Continuing southeast, we come to a dry desert valley, from the mouth of which a cemetery of the 22nd-25th Dynasties extends towards the plain. In the valley itself are many ancient quarries. On the right hand (south) side of the ravine, some 660yd/600m from its mouth, stands the rock temple.