It is
therefore quite possible that these tombs at Abydos were not the actual
last resting-places of the earliest kings, who may really have been
buried at Hierakonpolis or elsewhere, as Aha was. Messrs. Newberry
and Gtarstang, in their _Short History of Egypt_, suppose that Aha was
actually buried at Abydos, and that the great tomb with objects bearing
his name, found by M. de Morgan at Nakada, is really not his, but
belonged to a royal princess named Neit-hetep, whose name is found in
conjunction with his at Abydos and Nakada. But the argument is equally
valid turned round the other way: the Nakada tomb might just as well be
Aha's and the Abydos one Neit-hetep's. Neit-hetep, who is supposed by
Messrs. Newberry and Garstang to have been Narmer's daughter and Aha's
wife, was evidently closely connected with Aha, and she may have been
buried with him at Nakada and commemorated with him at Abydos.* It is
probable that the XIXth Dynasty list-makers and Manetho considered the
Abydos tombs to have been the real graves of the kings, but it is by no
means impossible that they were wrong.
* A princess named Bener-ab ("Sweet-heart"), who may have
been Aha's daughter, was actually buried beside his tomb at
Abydos.
This view of the royal tombs at Abydos tallies to a great extent with
that of M.
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