[5] In the famous narrative of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramesses II was said to have seen the enemy and "raged at them like Montu, Lord of Thebes".

Destroyed during the Late Period, a new temple was started in the reign of Nectanebo II and was continued by the Ptolemies.

Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV Caesarion added a birth house with a sacred lake.

The Bucheum, the burial place of the sacred Buchis bulls of Hermonthis, is on the desert edge north of the city.

The earliest bull burial dates to Nectanebo II, and the complex remained in use until the mid 4th century AD.