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Tomb U-j
Tomb U-j is a Predynastic royal tomb in Cemetery U at Abydos in Upper Egypt, excavated by Günter Dreyer in 1988 and dated to about 3320 BCE. Its twelve chambers held hundreds of jars, many of them wine jars imported from the Levant, and many small bone and ivory labels incised with signs that are among the earliest known Egyptian writing. It probably belonged to an early ruler of Thinis or Abydos.
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