Once one of the oldest cities of Egypt, today Abydos (or 'Abdju' in ancient Egyptian) is a small town of Sohag Governorate, almost 180 kilometers to the north of Luxor and 480 kilometers to the south of Cairo, near the town of Al Balyana. Abydos city of Abydos was the cemetery of Thinis, the capital of the eighth Nome of Upper Egypt. It was believed that the first part of the legend of Osiris (the good god) and Isis (his wife, the magical goddess) occurred there, where Osiris' body was buried after Seth killed him. As a result of this belief, Abydos was, for many centuries, a city of pilgrimage of the Egyptian common and noble people where ceremonies were held commemorating Osiris' death and rebirth in the afterlife. Pilgrims came in great numbers to make offerings, erect stelae and statue...
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