In the Sahara Desert [ http://somerset.qld…David/d3.htm ] in Egypt [ http://www.sis.gov.…] lie the oldest known astronomically aligned stones in the world: Nabta [ http://www.Colorado…]. Over one thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], local herders built a stone circle and other structures on the shoreline of a lake that has long since dried up. Over 6000 years ago, stone slabs three meters high were dragged over a kilometer to create the site. Shown above [ http://www.colorado…] is one of the stones that remains. Little is known [ http://www.lead.org…] about the ultimate purpose of Nabta [ http://www.smu.edu/…] and the nature of the people who built it.
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In the Sahara Desert [ http://somerset.qld…David/d3.htm ] in Egypt [ http://www.sis.gov.…] lie the oldest known astronomically aligned stones in the world: Nabta [ http://www.Colorado…]. Over one thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], local herders built a stone circle and other structures on the shoreline of a lake that has long since dried up. Over 6000 years ago, stone slabs three meters high were dragged over a kilometer to create the site. Shown above [ http://www.colorado…] is one of the stones that remains. Little is known [ http://www.lead.org…] about the ultimate purpose of Nabta [ http://www.smu.edu/…] and the nature of the people who built it.
