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🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Early Dynastic to Ptolemaic (Umm el-Qaab 3200 BCE; Seti I temple 1290–1279 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic
Chief cult centre of Osiris and burial place of first kings (Umm el-Qaab): Early Dynastic royal tombs, Middle Kingdom cenotaphs, and New Kingdom Temple of Seti I (1290–1279 BCE) – most complete and…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Predynastic Naqada to Early Dynastic to Old Kingdom · Naqada → Early Dynastic Egyptian
Predynastic to Old Kingdom village and cemetery cluster (c.4000–2686 BCE) behind Abydos, key to Abydos hinterland settlement pattern: massive Naqada II–III cemeteries (Mahasna cemetery, 400+ graves)…
