The area is one of the best known sites containing large numbers of fossils of large pre-historic animals in Egypt, and was known for this in the first century AD and probably much earlier. The desertified valley around Scetis in particular may be called the Desert of Scetis.
Scetis, now called Wadi El Natrun, is best known today because its ancient monasteries remain in use, unlike Nitria and Kellia which have only archaeological remains. The other two monastic centers are Nitria and Kellia. It is one of the three early Christian monastic centers located in the Nitrian Desert of the northwestern Nile Delta. In Christian literature it is usually known as Scetis ( Σκήτις in Hellenistic Greek) or Skete ( Σκήτη, plural Σκήτες in ecclesiastical Greek). The valley contains several alkaline lakes, natron-rich salt deposits, salt marshes and freshwater marshes. Wadi El Natrun ( Arabic: وادي النطرون "Valley of Natron" Coptic: Ϣⲓϩⲏⲧ Šihēt, "measure of the hearts" ) is a depression in northern Egypt that is located 23 m (75 ft) below sea level and 38 m (125 ft) below the Nile River level.
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