Abydos
Travel Guide to Abydos
The Travel Guide to Abydos highlights
the most important places to visit in this area of Egypt and its
significance to the history of Egypt together with Ancient Egyptian
facts and information about Abydos.
Places to Visit and
tour in Abydos
The most famous places to visit in
Abydos are as follows:
Abydos
Abydos was the site of an Ancient Egyptian city and temple complex
inhabited by the Ancient Egyptians for thousands of years. A sacred
center of worship notably to the the gods
Anubis and
Osiris
with other shrines dedicated to Isis, Horus, Amon
Ra and Ptah.
Temples, shrines, tombs and cenotaphs were
successively built here by many famous Pharaohs including:
-
Menes of the 1st
Egyptian Dynasty
-
Khufu aka Cheops
2589 - 2566BC of the 4th Dynasty
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Pepi I aka Pepy
I 2332 - 2283BC of the 6th Dynasty
-
Mentuhotep I of
the 11th Dynasty
-
Senusret I 1971
BC – 1926 BC of the 12th Dynasty
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Ahmose I 1550
-1525BC of the 18th Dynasty
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Ahmose II 570 BC
- 526 BC of the 26th Dynasty
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Thutmose III
1479 -1425 of the 18th Dynasty
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Seti I 1290 BC –
1279 BC of the 19th Dynasty
-
Ramses II, the
Great, 1279 BC – 1213 BC of the 19th Dynasty
-
Ramses III 1182
BC – 1151 BC of the 20th Dynasty
The
Great Temple of Abydos, of Seti I and the Osirion (aka
Osireion)
The most famous and impressive of the temples at Abydos is the Great
Temple of Abydos, of Seti I. Pharoah Seti I started the
construction of this temple and it was completed during
the reign of his son, Ramses the Great. The Great Temple
of Abydos is made of limestone, L-shaped and originally
550 feet wide. The Great Temples contains pylons, halls
and chapels and the famous Osirion. The Osirion is a
tomb, or shrine to the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris. The
Osirion is located behind and below the Great Temple of
Seti I at Abydos. The archaeologists Flinders Petrie and
Margaret Murray discovered the Osirion by accident while
excavating Seti's Great Temple of Abydos. Professor Sir
William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July
1942), known as Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray July
13, 1863- November 13, 1963 were English Egyptologists.
The Table of Abydos
The Table of Abydos is viewed by
many as of equal importance as the
Rosetta Stone is to
Egyptian archaeology. The Table of Abydos contains a rare chronological
list of cartouche names of most the Ancient dynastic pharaohs providing
details and dates of the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs and their dynasties.
It is interesting to note that the names of some notable Pharaohs were
excluded including the heretic King Akhenaten (1351 -1337) and his son
Tutankhamun and the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. These Pharaoh were so
hated and despised that attempts were made by the Ancient Egyptians to
erase the names of these Pharaohs, and their very existence, from
history. The Table of Abydos is located in one of the tunnels found in
the Great Temple of Abydos, of Seti I.
Location of Abydos
Our Egypt travel guide
differentiates between the sites of Upper and Lower Egypt. Ancient Egypt
originally consisted of two parts which were called Upper and Lower
Egypt. Abydos is located in
Upper Egypt.
Upper Egypt was the valley area in the South and Lower Egypt was
the delta area in the North. Upper and Lower Egypt each had their own
governments and rulers. These two parts Egypt were eventually united in
3118BC. Plan your Tour of Egypt around the most important and ancient sites of Upper, including Abydos, using our travel guide.
Abydos is located on the west bank of the Nile, 90 miles (145 km) north
of Luxor.
Abydos
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