Qasr El Labekha

Qasr El Labekha

Qasr El Labekha contains two temples, a fortress as well as some decorated tombs. It is a fortress town located an isolated part of the desert around 12km west of the main Asyut to el-Kharga road. It was constructed in a wadi at the base of the northern escarpment and served as a garrison. The fort was built in an excellent strategic place to guard and protect the intersection of two caravan routes of ancient times.

 

The fortress of El Labekha was surrounded with mud walls 12m high and having four massive towers on its four corners, which today is a chaos of crumbled walls and sand-filled remains of vaulted chambers. A temple was found located near the fort to the north, this damaged temple was built most probably during the third century A.D., it contains three chambers. Another ruined temple lies to the north-west of the fortress was only rediscovered during 1991-92 by Adel Hussein of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, it dates to the reign of Antonius Pius.
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