Abydos Dynasty

Abydos Dynasty
c. 1650 BC–c. 1600 BC
Map of Egypt during the Fifteenth, Abydos, and Sixteenth Dynasties
Map of Egypt during the Fifteenth, Abydos, and Sixteenth Dynasties
CapitalAbydos
Common languagesEgyptian language
Religion
Ancient Egyptian religion
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy
Historical eraBronze Age
• Established
c. 1650 BC
• Disestablished
c. 1600 BC
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt

The Abydos Dynasty is hypothesized to have been a short-lived local dynasty ruling over parts of Middle and Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt. The Abydos Dynasty would have been contemporaneous with the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Dynasties, from approximately 1650 to 1600 BC.[1] It would have been based in or around Abydos and its royal necropolis might have been located at the foot of the Mountain of Anubis, a hill resembling a pyramid in the Abydene desert, close to a rock-cut tomb built for pharaoh Senusret III.

  1. ^ "Giant Sarcophagus Leads Penn Museum Team in Egypt To the Tomb of a Previously Unknown Pharaoh". Penn Museum. January 2014. Retrieved 16 Jan 2014.