The statues were found inside two cenotaphs (empty tombs erected in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere) at the Gebel el Silsila site, where a total of 32 cenotaphs have been found along the Nile.
The historically significant area is also where many of the sandstone blocks used to build Egypt's temples were quarried.
![Statues of Neferkhewe and Ruiuresti, found at Gebel el Silsila.<br>Photo: via Gebel el Silsila Survey Project.](https://news.artnet.com/wp-content/news-upload/2016/01/silsila-shrines.jpg)
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