Nabta Playa: Stone Circle in the Desert May Be an Existential Calendar of a Lost World
Nabta Playa lies in the southwestern Egyptian desert near the Sudan border. Today it is arid scrubland, but historically the area received seasonal rainfall forming seasonal lakes. Pastoralists and hunters returned there cyclically with the water cycle, leaving wells, graves, standing stones, and a small stone circle.
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Nabta Playa lies in the southwestern Egyptian desert near the Sudan border. Today it is arid scrubland, but historically the area received seasonal rainfall forming seasonal lakes. Pastoralists and hunters returned there cyclically with the water cycle, leaving wells, graves, standing stones, and a small stone circle.
Nabta Playa lies in the southwestern Egyptian desert near the Sudan border. Today it is arid scrubland, but historically the area received seasonal rainfall forming seasonal lakes. Pastoralists and hunters returned there cyclically with the water cycle, leaving wells, graves, standing stones, and a small stone circle.
Nabta Playa lies in the southwestern Egyptian desert near the Sudan border. Today it is arid scrubland, but historically the area received seasonal rainfall forming seasonal lakes. Pastoralists and hunters returned there cyclically with the water cycle, leaving wells, graves, standing stones, and a small stone circle.
Nabta Playa lies in the southwestern Egyptian desert near the Sudan border. Today it is arid scrubland, but historically the area received seasonal rainfall forming seasonal lakes. Pastoralists and hunters returned there cyclically with the water cycle, leaving wells, graves, standing stones, and a small stone circle.