The Osirion at Abydos
Why did the builders of a delicate limestone temple raise, directly behind it, a stark megalithic hall of hundred-tonne granite sunk to the water table around a stone island — and does its archaic, 'cyclopean' style really mean it is older than the New Kingdom?
c. 1290 BCE (19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I; original date contested) · Abydos, Sohag Governorate, EgyptAdded July 2026