Today, these age-old ruins lie beneath the wind-blown sands of a place we know as Abydos, some 300 miles south of Cairo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacred Sands] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

That will rank right up there with Abydos being destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference

Ballas and Neggadeh and those found by Amélineau in Abydos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

She walked over to old Abydos and laid her hand on his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

Shunet ez Zebib at Abydos, the mortuary enclosure of Khasekhemwy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort] Reference

Walter's impetus 'he Giaour,' 'he Corsair,' the 'Bride of Abydos.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

"You find the Bride of Abydos a comfortable ship?" asked Hornblower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

There lay Clorinda at anchor, with the Bride of Abydos close to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

He had freed the Helmond, and he had laid hands on the Bride of Abydos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

This list omits important finds at Abydos and Saqqara, among other sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egyptology's New Frontier] Reference

Wooden planking is visible in a test excavation in a boat grave at Abydos.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Old Boat] Reference

The excavation of a 5,000-year-old wooden boat buried at Abydos in southern.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Old Boat] Reference

It was discovered by Mr. Banks in a chamber of the temple of Abydos, in 1818.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The same thing happened at Abydos, during the time of the political clubs, of which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

Early town sites in Egypt are rarely excavated; Abydos provides an important exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digging in the Ancient Town of Abydos] Reference

There was me and old Abydos, plus a youngster named Meleagros and a Hittite called Artashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

The passage of the straits was effected in the midst of a fire from the forts of Sestos and Abydos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

The night was serene, and the light of the moon showed the stately castle of Abydos, dark and majestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829] Reference

The new tablet of Abydos is, moreover, the completest and best preserved monument we possess in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The authors draw on inscriptions in the British Museum and on the list of pharaohs at Abydos for their examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Egyptian School Daze] Reference

Spartans returned home, but the Athenians crossed from Abydos in Asia to Sestos, the strongest fortress in the district.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

Xerxes, King of Persia; prepares to invade Greece, and reviews his troops at Abydos; stories of; bridges and crosses the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Smaller ships, similar in date to those found at Abydos, have been excavated just south of Cairo, at Saqqara, and Helwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Old Boat] Reference

Thus it became evident that the Abydos objects were, in any case, to be placed in the earliest period of Egyptian history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

Generally simple three-room structures, Khasekhemwy made his at Abydos a more complicated affair composed of more than 9 rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 2] Reference

The tomb of Abydos offered, however, on quiet consideration, more material for establishing its date than those of Ballas and Neggadeh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

About the same time another riddle was presented to Egyptologists by the results of the excavations made in Abydos by the French scholar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

But the boat that was leaving the Bride of Abydos was not being handled in the man-o'-war fashion one would have expected of Ramsbottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

At Abydos, Khasekhemwy built a funerary enclosure, which is two times larger than the Fort, to accompany his equally immense desert tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort] Reference

At mid-day we entered the Dardanelles, and several hours afterwards, we cast anchor between Sestos and Abydos, before a small white town, containing no remarkable objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference