ABYDOS

This historic place is one of the most important places in Upper Egypt that makes you feel glamorous during your visit to it. It is located about 135 km from Luxor, and is also called the El Araba El Madfuna and it has spectacular relics that shed light on the history of the ancient Egyptian Dynasties, There are many monuments located about 3 km from the east-west and 6 km from the south to the north.

You will feel the authenticity of the place during your trip and you will be immersed in Abydos' remarkable landmarks, in the Temple of Seti I which was the reason to discover the city and its cemeteries.

You will be enchanted by the glory of ancient Egyptian architecture and lifestyle by viewing one of its mysterious places with White Bird Travel. When you visit these cemeteries, you will explore more information about the beautiful southern cemeteries, which sheds light on the predynastic period of Naqada III and used to be the cemetery of the people in this place but by time it became place to bury the Nobles and the excavations found the cemetery of the scorpion king there the king that was said that he ruled before the unifier King Narmer or he can be King Narmer himself.

Abydos was very important site in ancient Egypt as it was the pilgrimage center where the myth said that after Seth killed his brother Osiris and cut his body, the head was buried in Abydos where King Merenptah added the Osireion. So Egyptians used to go for pilgrimage in Abydos every year and to write their names on the leaves of the Sycamore tree where they believed that this action will protect them in the afterlife.