Dendera and Abydos Day Tour From Luxor

Dendera and Abydos Day Tour From Luxor

Buried as it is, Abydus, even under its mounds, is a place of profound historical interest. At a time so remote that it precedes all written record of Egyptian story, there existed a little way to the northward of this site a city called Teni. We know not to what aboriginal community of prehistoric Egypt this city belonged ; but here, presumedly, the men of Kem built their first Temple, evolved their first notions of art, and groped their way to an alphabet which in its origin was probably a mere picture-writing.”
Visit one of the most ancient places in Egypt with Amelia and see the foundations and ruins of the country’s oldest temples. Here you will reflect upon the origins of ancient Egypt and civilization.

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Stop At: Temple Abydos, Abydos Road, Abydos Egypt

Abydos It is located about 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) west of the Nile at latitude 26° 10' N, near the modern Egyptian towns of el-'Araba el Madfuna and al-Balyana. In the ancient Egyptian language, the city was called Abdju. The English name Abydos comes from the Greek , a name borrowed by Greek geographers from the unrelated city of Abydos on the Hellespont.
Considered one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, the sacred city of Abydos was the site of many ancient temples, including Umm el-Qa'ab, a royal necropolis where early pharaohs were entombed.[1] These tombs began to be seen as extremely significant burials and in later times it became desirable to be buried in the area, leading to the growth of the town's importance as a cult site.
Today, Abydos is notable for the memorial temple of Seti I, which contains an inscription from the nineteenth dynasty known to the modern world as the Abydos King List. It is a chronological list showing cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until Seti I's father, Ramesses I.
The Great Temple and most of the ancient town are buried under the modern buildings to the north of the Seti temple.Many of the original structures and the artifacts within them are considered irretrievable and lost; many may have been destroyed by the new construction.


Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Dendera Temple Complex, Qism Qena, Qena, Qena Governorate, Egypt

Dendera Temple complex is located about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-east of Dendera, Egypt. It is one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt. The area was used as the sixth Nome of Upper Egypt, south of Abydos.
The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mudbrick enclosed wall. Dendera was inhabited in prehistory, a useful oasis on the banks of the Nile. It seems that pharaoh Pepi I (ca. 2250 BC) built on this site and evidence exists of a temple in the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca 1500 BC). The earliest extant building in the compound today is the Mammisi raised by Nectanebo II – last of the native pharaohs (360–343 BC). The features in the complex include:
• Hathor temple (the main temple)
• Temple of the birth of Isis
• Sacred Lake
• Sanatorium
• Mammisi of Nectanebo II
• Christian Basilica
• Roman Mammisi
• a Barque shrine
• Gateways of Domitian and Trajan
• the Roman Kiosk


Duration: 2 hours