The most prominent feature of the area is the remains of a great mud brick temenos wall enclosing roughly 76,800 square meters of land.
In the early days of excavation here, only the enclosed area in the northwest corner of the temenos wall was referred to as Kom el-Sultan, however today this term has come to include the entire area confined by the temenos wall, which contained the ancient town and temple site of Abydos.
Mariette,[1] Garstang,[2] Petrie,[3] Adams,[4] and Marlar[5] have all conducted excavations within Kom el-Sultan.
Mariette worked in the northwest corner of the temenos wall, which was the original Kom el-Sultan.
Petrie excavated in the local northern section where he found the only known statue of Khufu as well as architecture which he interpreted as phases of the Osiris temple (from the Early Dynastic Period to the 26th Dynasty).