A Saturday seminar from the Danish Egyptological Society, with three lectures on one of Egypt's most important archaeological sites. The morning opens with an introduction to Abydos, the ancient place believed to be the burial site of Osiris, covering its monuments and graves from prehistoric to Ptolemaic times.
The afternoon session turns to a history of archaeological discovery at Abydos, from the late 19th-century digs at the royal cemetery of Umm al-Qa'ab to Flinders Petrie's 1921 investigation of the so-called Tombs of the Courtiers. The speakers are Tine Bagh, Matthew D. Adams and Wendy Doyon.
