c. 5000 BC
Nabta Playa ceremonial center
Religion · Prehistoric ritual
In the eastern Sahara, pastoral communities built a ceremonial center and megalithic alignments by an ancient playa. The date concerns the complex and inferred ritual uses, not an already formed Egyptian religion.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 1998-03-30
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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