Qualla: Temple of Seti I (Abydos) https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos 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/temple-of-seti-i-abydos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Temple of Seti I (Abydos) https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos Temple of Seti I (Abydos): Introduction https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos/ Photo credit Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0. Step out of the Upper Egyptian glare and into the second hypostyle hall of Seti I's temple, and the noise of the present falls away. Thirty-six sandstone columns rise into shadow. On the walls, gods and a king move through carved scenes so finely cut that the figures seem to swell out of the stone, their muscles and jewelry and folded linen rendered with a tenderness rare even in Egypt. This is raised relief, the most demanding technique an Egyptian sculptor could attempt, and at Abydos it survives almost as crisp as the day it was finished more than three thousand years ago.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/temple-of-seti-i-abydos-wp/ssws-temple-of-seti-i-abydos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Temple of Seti I (Abydos): A Father's Vision, A Son's Finish https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0. Seti I began the temple in the thirteenth century BC but died before it was complete. His son, Ramesses II, took over, and the two halves of the building tell the story of two very different kings. Seti's chambers carry the delicate raised reliefs that made the temple famous, pat...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/temple-of-seti-i-abydos-wp/ssws-temple-of-seti-i-abydos-a-fathers-vision-a-sons-finish.mp3 0:06 2 full Temple of Seti I (Abydos): The Gallery of Ancestors https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos/ Photo credit Boston Public Library, CC BY 2.0. In a side corridor known as the Gallery of the List, a single wall carries one of the most quietly astonishing documents to survive from the ancient world. Carved in low relief, Seti and the young Ramesses are shown making offerings to their predecessors, and beside them runs a l...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/temple-of-seti-i-abydos-wp/ssws-temple-of-seti-i-abydos-the-gallery-of-ancestors.mp3 0:06 3 full Temple of Seti I (Abydos): The Hall Behind the Temple https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0. Pass through the rear of the temple and the architecture changes character entirely. The Osireion is a vast, stark hall of red granite, its huge plain pillars deliberately built to resemble a royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings. It served as a symbolic burial place for Osiris, ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/temple-of-seti-i-abydos-wp/ssws-temple-of-seti-i-abydos-the-hall-behind-the-temple.mp3 0:06 4 full Temple of Seti I (Abydos): The Helicopter That Wasn't https://qualla.com/temple-of-seti-i-abydos/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0. High on one architrave, a cluster of weathered hieroglyphs has launched a thousand internet theories. To some eyes they resemble a helicopter, a submarine, and an aircraft, proof, the claim goes, of ancient astronauts or lost technology. The reality is more ordinary and, in its w...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/w/s/temple-of-seti-i-abydos-wp/ssws-temple-of-seti-i-abydos-the-helicopter-that-wasnt.mp3 0:06 5 full