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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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    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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    statues. Tamarix ("tamarisk" or "salt cedar") was used to build boats such as the Abydos boats. One of the most important indigenous woodworking techniques...
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    000-year-old wine at the tomb of Meret-Neith in Abydos - phys.org - October 9, 2023 Wine jars from her grave from Abydos. MERNEITH (MERYT-NEITH) Wikimedia Commons...
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    Temple of Abydos. In antiquity, the temple was known as "Menmaatre Happy in Abydos," and is a significant historical site in Abydos. Abydos is a significant...
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    Khufu ship (redirect from Cheops boat)
    in the Solar boat museum Solar boat pit, Giza Plateau, Egypt One of the boat pits on the east side of the Great Pyramid Atet Abydos boats Ancient Egyptian...
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    specially-built Giza Solar boat museum, but was subsequently moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum. Ancient Egyptian royal ships Abydos boats Solar deity Trundholm...
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    name of the god Min. The Egyptian form, mnj, is taken from the Turin and Abydos King Lists, which are dated to the Nineteenth Dynasty, whose pronunciation...
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  • 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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    Ahaneith Artefacts and monuments Narmer macehead Narmer palette Den seal impressions Abydos boats MacGregor plaque Mastabas S3503 and S3504 Capital Thinis...
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    reports that the oldest planked ships known are the Abydos boats. A group of 14 discovered ships in Abydos were constructed of wooden planks "sewn" together...
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    museum Ancient Egyptian solar ships Abydos boats Ancient Egyptian technology Ships preserved in museums "The Solar Boat Museum | Egyptian Monuments". Egyptsites...
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    Djer in Abydos or attested in Saqqara. These women are thought to be the wives of Djer and include: Nakhtneith (or Nekhetneith), buried in Abydos and known...
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    boat of the two boats in the south. These characteristics suggest that these two boats were the Night-boats of Ra, which are the mythological boats that...
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    tomb in Abydos which measures 98.5 X 75.5 feet or 30 X 23 meters. A long reign is supported by the large size of this ruler's burial site at Abydos. This...
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    also says that he erected pyramids near Kôchômê. Djet's tomb is located at Abydos in Petrie's Tomb Z. It is located west of his father, King Djer's tomb....
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    what it was in Meritneith's time. Neithhotep's name was found at Helwan, Abydos and Naqada. It appears on clay seal impressions, on ivory tags, and as inscriptions...
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    18 April 2013. Ships and boats in Egypt Ancient Egyptian boat building Shipbuilding in Ancient Egypt Solar ships The Abydos Ship Sakkara and Abydous Ship...
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    "Ein Siegel der frühzeitlichen Königsnekropole von Abydos", MDAIK, 43: 33–44. Dreyer, G (1999), "Abydos, Umm el-Qa'ab", in Bard, KA; Shubert, SB (eds.),...
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    Ahaneith Artefacts and monuments Narmer macehead Narmer palette Den seal impressions Abydos boats MacGregor plaque Mastabas S3503 and S3504 Capital Thinis...
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    oldest ships yet unearthed are known as the Abydos boats. These are a group of 14 ships discovered in Abydos that were constructed of wooden planks which...
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  • On 3 March 1956, the fifty-two-year-old Eady left for Abydos. She set up home in Arabet Abydos, which sits in the cradle of the mountain Pega-the-Gap...
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    name. Cervello-Autuori, Josep (2003). "Narmer, Menes and the Seals from Abydos". In Hawass, Zahi (ed.). Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century:...
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    Ahaneith Artefacts and monuments Narmer macehead Narmer palette Den seal impressions Abydos boats MacGregor plaque Mastabas S3503 and S3504 Capital Thinis...
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    Horus-names, while the historical record, as evidenced in the Turin and Abydos king lists, uses an alternative royal titulary, the nebty-name. The different...
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  • with the unified land being ruled by an Egyptian god-king. In the south, Abydos remained the major centre of ancient Egyptian religion; the hallmarks of...
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    on one of the other boats. The Chicago boat Close-up of the Chicago boat showing an oar The Red boat The White boat Abydos boats Ancient Egyptian technology...
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    in Abydos; Netjeryt festival in Memphis) and a funeral procession intended to convey the effigy to its tomb (thanks to the neshmet barque in Abydos and...
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    earthen jar seals. Objects bearing Semerkhet's name and titles come from Abydos and Sakkara. Semerkhet's serekh name is commonly translated as "companion...
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  • archaeologically recorded seal impressions from first dynasty tombs at Abydos never mention her. She appears only in an inscription on the Palermo stone...
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