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    English name Abydos comes from the Greek Ἄβυδος, a name borrowed by Greek geographers from the unrelated city of Abydos on the Hellespont. Abydos name in hieroglyphs...
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    connection with Abydos: Wepwawet being an important Abydene god and Thinis being a prominent city, located a few miles north of Abydos. Additionally, Wepwawetemsaf...
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    The Abydos King List, also known as the Abydos Table, is a list of the names of 76 kings of ancient Egypt, found on a wall of the Temple of Seti I at...
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  • Asia Minor Abydos (Stargate), name of a fictional planet in the Stargate science fiction universe Abydos, Egypt, a city in ancient Egypt Abydos Station,...
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  • Thumbnail for Temple of Seti I (Abydos)
    Temple of Seti I, also known as the Great Temple of Abydos, is a major historical site located in Abydos. The temple was built in 13th century BC by pharaoh...
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    The Abydos boats are the remnants of a group of ancient royal Egyptian ceremonial boats found at an archaeological site in Abydos, Egypt. Discovered in...
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    hieroglyphs is a name given to part of an Egyptian hieroglyph carving from the Temple of Seti I at Abydos. It is a palimpsest relief with two overlapping...
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    Osireion (category Abydos, Egypt sites)
    (1914). "Abydos". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 1 (1): 2–8. doi:10.2307/3853664. JSTOR 3853664. O'Connor, David (2009). Abydos: Egypt's first pharaohs...
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    Ancient Egypt and was contemporary with the 15th and 16th dynasties. The Abydos Dynasty stayed rather small with rulership over just Abydos or Thinis...
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    Umm El Qa'ab (category Abydos, Egypt sites)
    Arabic: أم القعاب) is a necropolis of the Early Dynastic Period kings at Abydos, Egypt. Its modern name means "Mother of Pots" as the whole area is littered...
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    included civil war, Egypt came under the rule of Djoser, marking the beginning of the Third Dynasty. Both the Turin King List and the Abydos King List record...
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    dynasty reigning over Abydos from around 1650 BC until 1600 BC. Four attested kings may be tentatively attributed to the Abydos Dynasty, and they are...
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    The First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty I) covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt. It immediately follows the unification...
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    from Hierakonpolis (Egypt); Egyptian Museum (Cairo) Tag depicting king Den; c. 3000 BC; ivory; 4.5 × 5.3 cm; from Abydos (Egypt); British Museum (London)...
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  • Thumbnail for Abydos King List (Ramesses II)
    The Abydos King List of Ramesses II, also known as the Fragmentary Abydos King List or the Fragmentary Abydos Table, is a list of Ancient Egyptian kings...
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  • Dorothy Eady (category British emigrants to Egypt)
    and folklorist. She was keeper of the Abydos Temple of Seti I and draughtswoman for the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. She is known for her belief...
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  • Thumbnail for S 10 (Abydos)
    S 10 (also Abydos-south S10) is the modern name given to a monumental ancient Egyptian tomb complex at Abydos in Egypt. The tomb is most likely royal...
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  • control, and respect to Egypt. He also was responsible for creating the temple complex at Abydos. Arguably Ancient Egypt's power as a nation-state peaked...
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  • Thumbnail for Abydos graffiti
    The Abydos graffiti is Phoenician and Aramaic graffiti found on the walls of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, Egypt. The inscriptions are known as KAI 49...
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    Khufu Statuette (category Abydos, Egypt)
    William Matthew Flinders Petrie during excavation of Kom el-Sultan in Abydos, Egypt. It depicts Khufu, a Pharaoh of the Fourth dynasty (Old Kingdom, c. 2613...
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    Sebek-khu Stele (category Abydos, Egypt)
    BC) discovered by John Garstang in 1901 outside Khu-sobek's tomb at Abydos, Egypt, and now housed in the Manchester Museum. The text is largely about...
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    were nearest to other ancient Egyptians (Naqada, Hierakonpolis, Abydos and Kharga in Upper Egypt; Hawara in Lower Egypt), and C-Group and Pharaonic era...
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  • overlapping circles drawn on the granite columns at the Temple of Osiris in Abydos, Egypt, and a further five on column opposite the building. They are drawn...
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    the history of the significant site of Abydos in southern Egypt. Abydos is known as the burial place of Egypt's first kings, and later became the primary...
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    early temple at Abydos, Egypt (c. 3000 BC) King Den's sandal label from Abydos, mid-1st Dynasty (c. 2985 BC) Stela of King Peribsen, Abydos (c. 2720–2710...
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    Iry-Hor (or Ro) was a predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the 32nd century BC. Excavations at Abydos in the 1980s and 1990s and the discovery in 2012...
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  • Thinis (redirect from Thinis, Egypt)
    burial-site in Egypt. At an early point, the city of Abydos ceded its political rank to Thinis, and although Abydos would continue to enjoy supreme religious importance...
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    as far back as 5,000 years in Egypt; in the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered palm oil in a tomb at Abydos, Egypt dating back to 3000 BCE. The first...
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    Merneith (category Queens consort of the First Dynasty of Egypt)
    000-year-old wine at the tomb of Meret-Neith in Abydos - phys.org - October 9, 2023 Wine jars from her grave from Abydos. Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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    ancient wine jars in Abydos has shown there was some high-volume wine trade with the Levant and Mesopotamia during this period. Egyptians used traditional...
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