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10 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Epipaleolithic to Predynastic (Naqada I–II, Dynasty 0) · Naqada culture (Upper Egyptian elite) with Eastern Desert Nubian pastoral contact
Wadi el-Hosh 550 Naqada 4000–3000 BCE boats–falcon serekh to smiting, predecessor to Narmer, Huyge 1998.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) · Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE)
Tell el-Farkha in Dakahlia Governorate, Eastern Delta, Ghazala, Egypt is a Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) settlement attributed to Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through EB III–MBA (c.3500–2200 BCE); Late Chalcolithic, EB Ia–III Egyptian contact · Ghassulian → EBA I–III Canaanite urban with Naqada IIIb Egyptian colony (1st Dynasty)
25 ha EBA fortified town with Egyptian Colony (Dynasty 0–1) and EB IB wall — S. Yeivin gateway tell to Hebron hills.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic Chalcolithic to Early Dynastic · Buto-Maadi Culture → Naqada II-III interaction
Delta Predynastic tell (1.2 ha) with Buto-Maadi houses and Naqada graves interdigitated — key for Lower vs Upper Egyptian state formation, c.3500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Predynastic Naqada to Early Dynastic to Old Kingdom · Naqada → Early Dynastic Egyptian
Predynastic to Old Kingdom village and cemetery cluster (c.4000–2686 BCE) behind Abydos, key to Abydos hinterland settlement pattern: massive Naqada II–III cemeteries (Mahasna cemetery, 400+ graves)…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Predynastic (Naqada I Amratian to III Protodynastic) · Naqada (Upper Egyptian protodynastic)
Type-site of Predynastic Upper Egypt — Naqada I–III cultures (c.4000–3000 BCE) that unified Egypt: eponymous cemeteries N7000+ graves at Naqada, Ballas, Nubt town (gold-worker's town of Seth).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Minor step pyramid north of Nubt/Ombos near Naqada (c.2630 BCE), 18.39 m base, near Naqada culture type-site.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
late 3rd–early 4th Dynasty, c.2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Huni/Sneferu)
Three-step small pyramid at Ombos (Kom el-Ahmar) west of Naqada: 14 m base, 3 steps, now low mound. Excavated by Flinders Petrie, Quibell and later Kaiser-Dreyer.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 3rd Dynasty (Huni, c.2630–2613 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Huni)
Huni provincial step pyramid near Ombos (ancient Nubt), 18.39 m base, 3 steps, 4.50 m high today. Limestone blocks with Tafla mortar, without burial chamber, with eastern ramp.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Early Dynastic (4000–2686 BCE) · Naqada culture (Egyptian Predynastic)
Predynastic town south of Naqada with copper-axe cemetery.
