The site of Tel Basta is filled with the ruins of temples and statues, and is surrounded by houses and roads. A new visitors' centre has been built at Tell-Basta to explain the site, a safe zone around the site has been created and the temple reconstructed.

Egyptian archaeologists located the pink, granite monument at a site in Tell Basta. The great king's nose had been broken and his beard was missing, said Zahi Hawass, the head of the country's supreme council of antiquities. "The discovery is important because it may indicate that the excavators are close to the ruins of a major temple of Ramses II in the area".