Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo[1] or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt,[2] 22.51° north, 30.73° east.[3] Today the region is characterized by numerous archaeological sites.[2] The Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the earliest of the Egyptian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC.[4][5]
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^ abWendorf, Fred; Schild, Romuald (November 26, 2000). "Late Neolithic megalithic structures at Nabta Playa (Sahara), southwestern Egypt". Comparative Archaeology Web. Archived from the original on August 6, 2011.
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^Margueron, Jean-Claude (2012). Le Proche-Orient et l'Égypte antiques (in French). Hachette Éducation. p. 380. ISBN 9782011400963.
^Wendorf, Fred; Schild, Romuald (2013). Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara: Volume 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 51–53. ISBN 9781461506539.
NabtaPlaya was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers...
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predynastic and ancient Egyptian foreign contacts up through 343 BC. In NabtaPlaya by the end of the 6th millennium BC, prehistoric Egyptians had imported...
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cattle remains near the Nile dated to 9000 BP and cattle remains near NabtaPlaya and Bir Kiseiba reliably dated to 7750 BP, domesticated cattle may have...
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Fred Wendorf, Romauld Schild, and Angela Close, Bir Kiseiba, along with NabtaPlaya, has some of the earliest evidence for food production, permanent settlement...
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Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara: Volume 1: The Archaeology of NabtaPlaya. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 622. ISBN 9781461506539. Retrieved...
megaliths accurately mark the summer or winter solstice (for example in NabtaPlaya, Egypt; Mnajdra, Malta; and Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric...
summer or winter solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are in NabtaPlaya, Egypt; Mnajdra, Malta and at Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric...
precursor to Nubian archer culture in later times. Megaliths discovered at NabtaPlaya are early examples of what seems to be one of the world's first astronomical...
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civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant." Excavations from NabtaPlaya, located in Nubia about 100 km west of Abu Simbel, suggest that the Neolithic...
Washington, U.S. Medicine wheel – Ancient stone circles in North America NabtaPlaya – Calendar circle built circa 5000 BC in Egypt Newgrange – Neolithic...
cattle remains near the Nile dated to 9000 BP and cattle remains near NabtaPlaya and Bir Kiseiba reliably dated to 7750 BP, domesticated cattle may have...
mathematics, alchemy and astronomy within the polities of Egypt, see NabtaPlaya. This is simultaneous with cultural diffusions via the Sahara (African...
and Luba calendar and Ankole calendar. A stone circle located in the NabtaPlaya basin may be one of the world's oldest known archeoastronomical devices...
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