Dr. Colleen Darnell on Instagram: "In the Wadi Hilal, a valley east of ancient Elkab, a series of primarily Old Kingdom priests’ inscriptions focus on the massive “Vulture Rock” (a modern name apparently coined by the Belgian Egyptologist Jean Capart) that rises abruptly from the wadi floor. Several of the inscriptions mention “this temple;” considerable ceramic material and remains of small stone objects, such as offering tables—all of Old Kingdom date—concentrate at an area between Vulture Roc

Dr. Colleen Darnell on Instagram: "Standing at the entrance to the forecourt of the temple of Hathor and Nekhbet east of Elkab. The temple is of a sort known by the Greek term “hemi-speos,” meaning that part is a freestanding structure and another portion is cut into the living rock. Watch to the end to see me enter the rock-cut sanctuary. The sanctuary dates to the reign of Ramesses II and was dedicated by the King’s Son of Kush Setau; the outer portions as they survive now date to the Ptolemai