Abydos

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• Description: Daniel Jackson and Teal'C travel back to Abydos. Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Secrets' (S02E09)
• The guide flew with us an hour to Luxor, where we joined a bus convoy for the 10-hour round trip to the legendary temples of Abydos and Dendera with many security checkpoints on the way -- the Egyptians really overdo it to make tourists feel safe. Scott S. Smith: Egypt the Eternal
• Early in the spring of the following summer Dercyllidas, a Spartiate, was sent with a small force by land to the Hellespont to bring about the revolt of Abydos, which is a Milesian colony; and the Chians, while Astyochus was at a loss how to help them, were compelled to fight at sea by the pressure of the siege. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
• Abydos cemetery is one of the predynastic and early-dynastic necropolis in ancient Egypt.
• Early in the spring of the summer following, Dercyllidas, a Spartan, was sent with a small force by land to the Hellespont to effect the revolt of Abydos, which is a Milesian colony; and the Chians, while The History of the Peloponnesian War
• The book is most vivid when McGovern is relating his own research experiences -- how he was able to determine that a grog of wine, beer, and mead was prepared for a royal funeral feast at Gordion in Turkey, or how he learned that jars in the tomb of the Egyptian king Scorpion I at Abydos contained resinated wine imported from the southern Levant. Books: Roots of the Vine
• Today, these age-old ruins lie beneath the wind-blown sands of a place we know as Abydos, some 300 miles south of Cairo. Sacred Sands
• Right, the Harsesis child is back and wants to learn more about his mother so he heads off to Abydos, manifests himself as a talking tornado and asks for Daniel. September 2009
• Abydos was a place of sanctity for the ancient Egyptians.
• Athenians formed in column and sailed close alongshore to Sestos; upon perceiving which the Peloponnesians put out from Abydos to meet them. The History of the Peloponnesian War