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Abydos Temple : Pharaonic
Abydos, or Abjdu,
lies in the eight nome of Upper Egypt, about 300 miles south of Cairo, on the
western side of the Nile and about 9.5 miles from the river.
It spreads over 5
square miles and contains archaeological remains from all periods of ancient
Egyptian history. It was significant in historical times as the main cult
center of Osiris, The lord of the netherworld. At the mouth of the canyon at
Abydos, which the Egyptians believed to be the entrance to the underworld, one
of the tombs of the 1st dynasty kings was mistaken for the tomb of Osiris, a
thousand years later, and pilgrims would leave offerings to the god for another
thousand years.
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