The name of the town indicates that it was originally built as an outlying part of Abydos, set up by the Egyptian state as housing for the people working in and around the funerary complex of pharaoh Senusret III (fl.

This complex consists of the mortuary temple, the town of Wah-Sut, and a tomb dug into the bed-rock beneath the Mountain of Anubis, a nearby hill with a pyramidal shape.

The town continued to exist for at least another 150 years, well into the Thirteenth Dynasty, when it was close to a royal necropolis of the tombs of Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV (fl.

In 1901–1902, Charles Trick Currelly, Arthur E. P. Weigall, Ayrton and Flinders Petrie found Senusret III's temple and tomb.

Their first season in South Abydos, they discovered the hidden tomb and a temple on the edge of the cultivation that is on axis.

Josef Wegner, working under David O. Conner, began his fieldwork in South Abydos in 1991.

[4] The mortuary temple of Senusret III is located outside Wah-Sut's town walls to the north along the cultivation line.

The main entrance led to the central court used only for cult activities and special occasions.

Inside this refuse, they found pottery used for cooking and household practices as well as administrative seals and other debris.

It contained large amounts of ceramics (most of them intact), animal bones and mud jar stoppers.

A building not far from the eastern temple entrance, which seemed to be linked to the storage in the galleries of the east block.

About 50 meters east of the temple appears to host another building cluster that was possibly used as supply and storage rooms for the production area.

[5] The tomb is situated at the base of the desert cliffs surrounded by a t-shaped mudbrick enclosing wall.

Weigel deduced who the tomb belonged to from its orientation on axis with Senusret III's Mortuary Temple.

Currelly discovered a 170 meter long subterranean tomb leading under the gebel (cliff).

The walls and ceiling of the first main chamber were made of fine white limestone blocks.

These rooms were not lines in stone, but the rock was carefully cut out and roughly polished.

In the limestone chamber, the plunderers apparently chiseled into the walls and ceilings looking for treasure.

The house appear to be equidistant from the Senusret III temple and that of Ahmose, next to where Building A was found.

The courtyard attached to the portico was paved like the rest of the central residence and seemed to be used for food preparation and storage based on the storage bins built into the outside walls, the amount of pottery found littered around, and the amount of organic material.

[9] Wegner uncovered a 10-block granary, a series of secondary storage structures, activities performed on the west side, and excavated the Northwest corner.

It served as a high volume, functioning granary based on deposits found inside the rooms.

[clarification needed] The external west side of Building A included a water supply chamber.

An extreme amount of nabaq seeds (fruit trees that can be used in bread, eaten alone, or used for medicine).

[11] The other four sides that have been somewhat preserved depict zoomorphic and anthropomorphic deities, which are also found on the magic wands that were often made of hippopotamus ivory.

The striding wildcat on the lower left corner of side E is one that is fully present on the brick.

Although her head has not been preserved, she faces forward and is a goddess based on her sky blue body.

[11] The birth brick was found in Building A in the northwest quadrant in the seven room residential area.