Umm El Qa’ab Tombs “Umm El Gaʻab”, Abydos – Egyptian Tombs | Pre-dynastic, First and Second Pharaonic Dynasty cemetery.
Umm El Qa’ab Tombs
- Umm El Qa’ab Tombs are located in the desert in the Abydos area of Sohag Governorate, which is considered the sacred place of the God Osiris – the symbol of reckoning and resurrection and one of the most famous ancient Egyptian deities and religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
- The area was chosen as a royal tomb for members of the royal family from the Dynasty 0 and the First Dynasty of Egypt starting from 2850 to 3150 BC, and it is considered one of the most famous Egyptian Pharaonic tombs throughout history.
- The design of the tomb in Umm El Qa’ab Tombs is the royal tomb of the king or a member of the royal family, and around it is a funerary wall preserved with rows of small tombs for servants and workers of the Pharaonic royal court.
Weird Facts:
- All employees of the royal court were sacrificed as soon as the king died and buried in secondary graves close to his royal cemetery, in the belief that they had the same role to serve him in the afterlife after death, “Aaru”. These traditions ended once the rule of the Pharaoh kings of the First Egyptian Dynasty ended.
- The German archaeologist, Dr. Dreyer, and the Egyptologist, Dr. Petrie, discovered in that servants and employees were the ones who voluntarily killed themselves, believing that it would bring them closer to the god and representative of the Pharaonic king.
- Tombs of kings and queens of the pre-dynastic civilization, the first and second Egyptian Pharaonic dynasties that ruled the throne of ancient Egypt, and what are the most important discoveries in the archaeological cemetery of Umm al-Jaab.
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