Qualla: Abydos, Egypt https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/abydos-egypt-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abydos, Egypt https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt Abydos, Egypt: Introduction https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt/ Photo credit Markh, Public domain. Walk a mile west from the green ribbon of the Nile, past the last cultivated field, and the desert begins. Out on that pale plain lies a low rise littered with millions of broken pots. The Arabs named it Umm el-Qa'ab, the Mother of Pots, and the shards are the residue of devotion: votive jars left by pilgrims over thousands of years. Beneath them sleep the first kings of Egypt. This is Abydos, one of the oldest and holiest places a pharaoh could be buried, and for much of antiquity the most sacred ground in the land.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/abydos-egypt-wp/ssws-abydos-egypt-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abydos, Egypt: Where Kings Were First Buried https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt/ Photo credit Soutekh67, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the pyramids, before Egypt was even fully one country, the rulers of the First Dynasty chose this stretch of desert for their graves. Narmer, the king credited with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BC, lies here, and so does his successor Aha. Their tombs began as...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/abydos-egypt-wp/ssws-abydos-egypt-where-kings-were-first-buried.mp3 0:06 2 full Abydos, Egypt: The God Who Rose Again https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt/ Photo credit One dead president, David Liam Moran, CC BY-SA 3.0. Abydos owed its long fame to a single idea. By the end of the Old Kingdom, the cult of Osiris, god of the dead and of resurrection, had taken root here, and Egyptians came to believe that the ancient tomb of King Djer was in fact the burial place of Osiris himself. Suddenly this ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/abydos-egypt-wp/ssws-abydos-egypt-the-god-who-rose-again.mp3 0:06 3 full Abydos, Egypt: Nine Temples, One Sacred Spot https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt/ Photo credit Steve F-E-Cameron, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Egyptians rebuilt at Abydos for nearly three thousand years, raising temple upon temple on the same patch of ground. From the First Dynasty to the Twenty-sixth, nine or ten successive sanctuaries rose, fell, and were rebuilt, each king adding to or replacing the work of his p...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/abydos-egypt-wp/ssws-abydos-egypt-nine-temples-one-sacred-spot.mp3 0:06 4 full Abydos, Egypt: The Survivor in the South https://qualla.com/abydos-egypt/ Photo credit Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most of ancient Abydos now lies buried beneath modern houses, its temples lost or destroyed. But half a mile to the south, one building survives nearly intact. Seti I raised it in the thirteenth century BC and his son Ramesses II finished it, an L-shaped temple of limestone honor...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/abydos-egypt-wp/ssws-abydos-egypt-the-survivor-in-the-south.mp3 0:06 5 full