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🇪🇬 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).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Neolithic through Persian–Hellenistic (c.5000 BCE–332 BCE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II, Persian · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine/Judahite → Persian province
1890 stratigraphic excavation origin — 12-m Petrie tell with EBA–Persian sequence (Neolithic–Iron) founding ceramic seriation.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late Third Dynasty (c.2630 BCE, provincial small step pyramid group) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty provincial)
The Naqada (Ombos) small step pyramid stands 300 m north of ancient Nubt on the west bank at Qena, part of the seven-provincial pyramid horizon. First excavated 1895 by Flinders Petrie and J.E.
