Located 90 km. south of Kharga, it houses the Roman Temple of Dush dedicated to the God Serapis. Its name derives from Kush, the ancient Sudanese capital which traded with Egypt along the Nile. Archeologists are still unearthing the ancient city of Kysis with which the temple is associated; an elaborate system of clay pipes and an abandoned Christian church, suggest that Kysis was abandoned when its underground springs dried up but the exact date remains a mystery. There is also a mud-brick Turkish fortress, an ancient church and some pottery dating to the Coptic.