In the 1930s, Terence Gray and Hans Winkler discovered a group of inscriptions and rock art in the gebel far behind Hou. A few photographs appeared in Hans Winkler's Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt, the publication of his work for the Sir Robert Mond Desert Expedition, an expedition of the Egypt Exploration Society; only two photographs appeared in Winkler's publication, however, and of most of the numerous hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions in the Wadi el-H61 only a tantalizing reference appeared: rarely has such a mass of hieroglyphic inscriptions been found at one site.1 In 1951 Macadam based on a photograph and notes by Newberry published the most monumental of the inscriptions in the Wadi el-H61, the stela of Sobekhotep III.2 In 1994 the Theban Desert Road Survey began to work at the site. Because of our discovery of a sandstone chapel of Antef V, and the statue of a general of the Second Intermediate Period, at the Theban terminus of the Farshut Road, we know that far from being a remote and isolated site, the Wadi el-H61 was in antiquity the bustling center of a great highway connecting Thebes with Hou and Abydos in the north, and via the Gebel Qarn elGir caravansary with the oases of Khargah and Dakhla in the Western Desert. Several hundred inscriptions and depictions cover the limestone cliffs of the Wadi el-H61 site.