Hero was loved by Leander, a youth who lived at Abydos, a town on the Asian side of the channel.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

The Passion Plays were held in the last month of the inundation ( the annual Nile flood, coinciding with Spring, and held at Abydos / Abedjou which was the traditional place where the body of Osiris / Wesir drifted ashore after having been drowned in the Nile.

One of the earliest royal scepters was discovered in the tomb of Khasekhemwy in Abydos.

A scepter was found in a tomb at Abydos that dates to the late Naqada period.

By late in the Middle Kingdom, the centuries-old tomb of the First Dynasty ruler Djer, near Osiris ' main center of worship in the city of Abydos, was seen as Osiris ' tomb.

In early Egyptian mythology, Anhur ( also spelled Onuris, Onouris, An-Her, Anhuret, Han-Her, Inhert ) was originally a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis.

Nephthys was attested as one of the four " Great Chiefs " ruling in the Osirian cult-center of Busiris, in the Delta and she appears to have occupied an honorary position at the holy city of Abydos.

Even so, Nu was sometimes represented by a sacred lake, or, as at Abydos, by an underground stream.

During this time, the royal burial ground was at Abydos.

The last Second Dynasty king Khasekhemwy was buried in his tomb at Abydos, but also built a funerary monument at Saqqara consisting of a large rectangular enclosure, known as Gisr el-Mudir.

The ancient Egyptian city of Abydos was the location chosen for many of the cenotaphs.

This arrangement resembles Early Dynastic funerary enclosures at Abydos in which the entrance was on the east side.

Although he seems to have started an unfinished tomb at Abydos ( Upper Egypt ), Djoser was eventually buried in his famous pyramid at Saqqara in Lower Egypt.

Since Khasekhemwy, a pharaoh from the 2nd dynasty, was the last pharaoh to be buried at Abydos, some Egyptologists infer that the shift to a more northerly capital was completed during Djoser's time.

The Great Harris Papyrus or Papyrus Harris I, which was commissioned by his son and chosen successor Ramesses IV, chronicles this king's vast donations of land, gold statues and monumental construction to Egypt's various temples at Piramesse, Heliopolis, Memphis, Athribis, Hermopolis, This, Abydos, Coptos, El Kab and other cities in Nubia and Syria.

At the command of Mehmed, Sabbatai was taken from Abydos to Adrianople, where the sultan's physician, a former Jew, advised him to convert to Islam.

After two months ' imprisonment in Constantinople, Sabbatai was taken to the state prison at Abydos.

A funerary temple for Seti was constructed in what is now known as Qurna ( Mortuary Temple of Seti I ), on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes while a magnificent temple made of white marble at Abydos featuring exquisite relief scenes was started by Seti, and later completed by his son.

The artifact was found in 1903 by Flinders Petrie at Kom el-Sultan near Abydos.

This explanation conforms better with the evidence of the unfinished state of Seti I's monuments and the fact that Ramesses II had to complete the decorations on " many of his father's unfinished monuments, including the southern half of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and portions of his father's temples at Gurnah and Abydos " during the very first Year of his own reign.

Two important inscriptions from the first decade of Ramesses ' reign, namely the Abydos Dedicatory Inscription and the Kuban Stela of Ramesses II, consistently give the latter titles associated with those of a Crown Prince only, namely the " king's eldest son and hereditary prince " or " child-heir " to the throne " along with some military titles.

Petrie first attempted this task, associating Iti with Djer as the third pharaoh of Dynasty I, Teti ( Turin ) ( or another Iti ( Abydos )) with Hor-Aha as second pharaoh, and Menes ( a nebty-name ) with Narmer ( a Horus-name ) as first pharaoh of Dynasty I. Lloyd ( 1994 ) finds this succession " extremely probable ", and Cervelló-Autuori ( 2003 ) categorically states that " Menes is Narmer and the First Dynasty begins with him ".

Jackson marries Sha're due to a misunderstanding on the first mission to Abydos and remains with her for a year on Abydos until she is taken as a host for Amonet (" Children of the Gods ").

The floor of his tomb at Umm el-Qa ' ab near Abydos is made of red and black granite, the first time in Egypt this hard stone was used as a building material.

Den was interred within a tomb (" Tomb T ") in the Umm el-Qa ' ab area of Abydos, which is associated with other first dynasty kings .< ref > Clayton, Peter A.

At Abydos the tomb belonging to Merneith was found in an area associated with other pharaohs of the first dynasty, Umm el-Qa ' ab.

In the tomb of Peribsen at Abydos clay seals were found which show the first complete sentence in Egyptian history.

This was a mistake ( Egyptology was not yet studied at Oxford ) so he went on to Leipzig, and on his return to England found work with Flinders Petrie, first at University College London and then at Abydos in Egypt.

This king was first attested in ostraca Louvre E. 31886 discovered at Abydos in Upper Egypt by Émile Amélineau ( 1850-1915 ) in his 19th Century excavations there.

His name is mentioned in both line 53 of the Abydos King List and by the Turin Canon.

* Harsiese, mentioned on an ostracon in Abydos

Hemen is also used for the name of a town of ancient Egypt ( as mentioned by Flinders Petrie during his studies of Abydos ).

Sitre is shown together with Ramesses I and Seti in Seti's Abydos temple, and she is called the King's Great Wife both here and in Seti's tomb ( where one would expect her to be mentioned as King's Mother ).

The Acheans controlled only the entrance to the Dardanelles, and Troy and her allies controlled the shortest point at Abydos and Sestus and communicated with allies in Europe.

* Encyclopædia Britannica Online, " Abydos " search: EncBrit-Abydos, importance of Abydos.

Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.

Hero and Leander's story took place near Abydos.

Abydos thereafter became a member of the Delian League, until it revolted from Athenian rule in 411 BC.

Abydos then passed under Achaemenid rule, until 334 BC.

Alexander the Great threw a spear to Abydos while crossing the strait and claimed Asia as his own.

Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon in 200 BC.

In literature, it is memorable from Byron having adopted its name in The Bride of Abydos.

Herodotus tells us that c. 482 BC Xerxes I ( the son of Darius ) had two pontoon bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army could cross from Persia into Greece.

Most pyramids are located near Cairo, with only one royal pyramid being located south of Cairo, at the Abydos temple complex.

The pyramid at Abydos, Egypt were commissioned by Ahmose I who founded the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom.

First hieroglyphs appear thus far around 3500 BC as found on labels in a ruler's tomb at Abydos.

Human use of oil palms may date as far back as 5, 000 years ; in the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered palm oil in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3, 000 BCE.

Shortly afterwards Thrasybulus again commanded a wing of the Athenian fleet at Abydos, another Athenian victory.

hay-rō ( ancient ) and like " hero " in English ), a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Dardanelles, and Leander (, Léandros ), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.