Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile, consisting of prehistoric and Pharaonic settlements, rock-cut tombs of the earth 18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC), and remains of temples dating from the Early Dynastic period (3100-2686 BC) to the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC). The most substantial remains are the massive mud-brick enclosure walls of the towns and the temple of Nekhbet. It is the type site of El-Kabian, a microlithic Epipalaeolithic industry dated to c 6000 BC.