“Megaliths from Nabta Playa displaid in the garden of the Aswan Nubia museum” Photo credit: Rawmbetz is licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0
The stone structures
of Nabta Playa
The megaliths can be found in several separate clusters, arranged
in an approximately north-south
direction. In the northern most
area of the site, there is a group of
around ten tumuli (mounds of earth
and stones raised over a grave),
which are made from sandstone,
and have been found to contain the
remains of cattle.
Over several thousand years of
habitation, the people of Nabta
Playa constructed numerous megalithic monuments, including stone
circles, underground tombs, huge
stone slabs, and rows of stelae,
which extend over about 2,500
meters. The megalithic monuments
are among some of the oldest in
the world, pre-dating Stonehenge
by thousands of years.
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