Fair warning: chances are good that you won’t be able to visit Nabta Playa, but we know that our readers are curious types. And, there are plenty of other things to do in the desert.
The Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the earliest of the Egyptian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC
This 7,000-year-old stone circle tracked the summer solstice and the arrival of the annual monsoon season. It’s the oldest known astronomical site on Earth.
Read more here courtesy of DiscoverMagazine.com
