El Araba El Madfuna
Place in Sohag, Egypt
26°10′30″N 31°54′40″E / 26.17500°N 31.91111°E / 26.17500; 31.91111![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png)
El Araba El Madfuna (Arabic: العربة المدفونة al-ʿarabah al-madfūnah, meaning 'the Buried Waggon', also known as Arabet Abydos) is a town in Egypt. It is located south of Sohag.
Overview
The old name of the town is al-Khirba (Arabic: الخربة), which comes from Coptic: ⲡⲣⲡⲉ, romanized: prpe, lit. 'the temple' and relates to the ruins of the ancient Egyptian town of Abydos, on the site of which it is located.[1][2] Tourists often visit the site to see the ruins of the temples of Seti I and Ramesses II, although a large number of other ruins and monuments are also located nearby, ranging from Pre-Dynastic through early Christian to Islamic and modern times.
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