Dush, Egypt

One of these tracks, "the Darb el-Dush, linked this outpost directly to the Nile valley towns of Esna and Edfu, marking it as a critical route in Roman times.

"[4] According to Cassandra Vivian: "today thousands upon thousands of potsherds cover the site and two sandstone temples and several cemeteries have been excavated by IFAO, whose dig house is at the base of the hill....From papyri found in the area, dated to the third century, and archaeological evidence it is apparent that the site was of great importance.

"[5] Dush holds a sandstone temple with a colonnade originally dedicated to Osiris, who the Greeks transformed into Serapis, and also to the goddess Isis.

[12] In 2005, Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities announced that: "These golden treasures [from Dush] will be the first of many other exhibits in the Egyptian Museum that will be 'excavated' from its [the Museum's] corridors and halls and put on display with various educational tools explaining their significance" as part of the 'The Golden Jewelry of Dush' display.

He also writes: This would mean that the Treasure of Dush was not discovered by looters, then hidden away in a magazine complex and subsequently lost due to the movement of desert sands as the Egyptian authorities once thought.