Umm el-Qa'ab

located in:

• Abydos

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems

excavated by:

• Günter Dreyer

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems, Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond

Appears in3 items

• 
  Ancient Egypt2 items
  • Early Dynastic Periodc. 3,000 BCE O.S.
  • Merneith, a queen among the kingsc. 2,950 BCE O.S.
• 
  The History of Writing1 item
  • Labels in tomb U-j at Abydosc. 3,250 BCE

Sources

1. BookThe Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
2. BookThe Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt