Abydos - Umm el-Gaab

1mi/1.6km southwest of the Temple of Ramesses II is a mound of rubble known asthe Umm el-Gaab ("motherof pots"), in which Amelineau and Flinders Petrie found the cenotaphs of kings of the First and Second Dynasties, including those of Djer (First Dynasty), believed during the Middle Kingdom to be the Tomb of Osiris, Usaphais (First Dynasty; c. 3100 B.C.) and Miebis (First Dynasty; c. 3100 B.C.). Practically nothing of these monuments is now to be seen. South of Abydos, at Nag el-Ghabat, is an ancient quarry.