War archery bows were found inside the burial ... that includes the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Some of these burial shafts, rock-cut tombs and artefacts are up to 3,000 years ...

The archery practised here today is an ancient form of the sport ... under the Ayyubid Dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt were taken from the Turkic-Kipchaks of the Central Steppe.