A few kilometer before Al Qasr is the intriguing Roman Ruin of Deir El Haggar. This place was once under-sand which helped preserve the paint on the carvings. The temple itself is among the smallest you will ever see, but considering its remoteness out here in the Sahara desert it must not be neglected. It was dedicated to the Theban triad Amon-Re, Mut and Khonsu, as well as to the god of the oasis, Seth. But its present name calls it a monastery, which is not wrong. A few centuries after its construction was it converted into a Coptic monastery.