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7 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 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 · Ancient village
Predynastic Badarian (4400–4000 BCE) → Naqada I transition · Badarian (Saharo-Nile early farmers)
Type-site of Badarian culture (c.4400–4000 BCE) — earliest farming culture of Upper Egypt preceding Naqada I: hamlets and 6000+ graves at Badari, Qau, Deir Tasa yielding rippled pottery, turquoise,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Late Period to Roman (664 BCE–250 CE) · Egyptian (Late Period–Ptolemaic–Roman)
Ibis catacomb annex 400 m north of Petosiris with 2m mummies.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Predynastic to Late Antique (3500 BCE–7th c. CE) · Egyptian (22nd Upper nome)
Nome capital at Nile bend with cow necropolis and small cenotaph pyramid.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
First Intermediate to Middle Kingdom (2181–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (13th Upper nome; nomarchs)
First Intermediate nomarch tombs with Djefaihapi mortuary contract.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Predynastic to New Kingdom (3500–1086 BCE) · Predynastic / Egyptian (New Kingdom)
Governor tombs north of El Kab with predynastic rock-art bank.
