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the early Egyptian mortuary texts known as the Pyramid Texts, this is a place where the stars never die and where there is no death at all”. About: April Holloway April Holloway, BSc (Psychol), is a writer and editor at Ancient-Origins.net, a website dedicated to exploring and reconstructing the story of humanity’s past. April writes hundreds of articles every year on topics relating to archaeology, anthropology, human origins, unexplained phenomena, ancient technology, and myths and legends from around the world. The series of associations between the complex and structured societies that developed over thousands of years in the Nubian Desert, and the great Nile cities of ancient Egypt, suggests that the rise of the influential and powerful civilization of ancient Egypt extends back much further than initially believed. REFERENCES F. Wendor and R. Schild (1998). Late Neolithic Megalithic Structures at Nabta Playa (Sahara). Available from: www.egyptologie.be/nabta_ playa_W%26S.htm of Nabta Playa. Focus on Archaeology, Academia 1, no. 1, pp 10-15. F. Wendorf and R. Schild (1998). Nabta Playa M. Gaffney (2006). The Astronomers of Nabta and its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory, Playa. Atlantis Rising, 56, pp 42-43. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 17, pp 97-123. J. McK Malville, R. Schild, F. Wendorf, and R. Brenmer (2007). Astronomy of Nabta Playa. African Sky, 11, p 2. F. Wendorf and R. Schild (2004). The Megaliths 14