An inscription in the Wadi Hammamat describes the expedition as being 3000 men strong and under the command of the steward Henenu.

They returned from Punt with incense, gum and perfumes, and quarried the Wadi Hammamat for stones.

He extended the temple of Monthu in Medamud, a monumental decorated doorway bearing his likeness and royal titles now resides in the Louvre.

Sankhkare Mentuhotep also had a mudbrick temple erected at Thoth Hill in Western Thebes.

[7] It was long presumed that his own tomb and mortuary temple was begun in Deir el-Bahari, but never completed.

The association of the monument with Sankhkare Mentuhotep was circumstantial, based on co-location with the tomb (TT280) of the High Steward Meketre, one of the chief officials of the reign.