{"id":37893,"date":"2017-10-20T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=37893"},"modified":"2023-02-18T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T08:08:08","slug":"nabta-playa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/nabta-playa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabta Playa"},"content":{"rendered":"

N<\/strong>abta Playa <\/strong>is a megalithic site situated 100 km west of Abu Simbel. It is the only known megalithic circle in Egypt, although in this instance \u2018megalithic\u2019 may be a misnomer as the components could have been erected by one person. A number of astronomical alignments have been identified at the site(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

Although first rediscovered in 1974 by anthropology professor Fred Wendorf, it became known to a wider audience when astrophysicist Thomas G. Brophy published his book, The Origin Map<\/em>[<\/sup>1510<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> in 2002. Wendorf was a contributor to a 2005 paper entitled Astronomy of Nabta Playa <\/em>delivered to the African Astronomical History Symposium in Cape Town(g)<\/sup>.><\/span><\/strong>Wendorf also co-authored a paper with Romuald Schild in 2000 in which they offered a further detailed description of the site(i)<\/sup>.<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The importance of Nabta Playa was further highlighted in a 2010 book by Robert Bauval & Thomas G. Brophy, Black Genesis<\/em>[<\/sup>1508<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/em>In it, they argue that the dark-skinned creators of Nabta Playa were the ancestors of the Egyptian culture, who migrated eastward as the Sahara<\/a> dried up. The book has been reviewed favourably by Bruce Jeffries-Fox<\/a>(b)<\/sup> and very critically by Jason Colavito<\/a> in four parts(c-f)<\/sup>. This was followed in 2012 by another book from Bauval & Brophy, Imhotep the African <\/em>[<\/sup>1509<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>, in which they explore further the development of ancient Egypt, particularly the part played by Imhotep.<\/p>\r\n

Most sites(h)<\/sup> today (Sept. 2021) cite an estimated age of 7,000 years for Nabta Playa.<\/p>\r\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/humanoriginproject.com\/nabta-playa-stone-circle\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(b) <\/sup>Origin of Egyptian Civilization (archive.org)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/reviewing-black-genesis-pt-1<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/reviewing-black-genesis-pt-2<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(e)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/reviewing-black-genesis-pt-3<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/reviewing-black-genesis-final-part<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(g) <\/sup>(PDF) Astronomy of Nabta Playa (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

(h)<\/sup><\/span> Nabta Playa\u2026 \u2013 Physics and Nano<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

(i) <\/sup>Untitled (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nabta Playa is a megalithic site situated 100 km west of Abu Simbel. It is the only known megalithic circle in Egypt, although in this instance \u2018megalithic\u2019 may be a misnomer as the components could have been erected by one person. A number of astronomical alignments have been identified at the site(a). Although first rediscovered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5486,5489,4842,6263,5490,1266,169,1403,7578,4270,5488,5487],"class_list":["post-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abu-simbel","tag-black-genesis","tag-bruce-jeffries-fox","tag-fred-wendorf","tag-imhotep","tag-jason-colavito","tag-nabta-playa","tag-robert-bauval","tag-romuald-schild","tag-sahara-desert","tag-the-origin-map","tag-thomas-g-brophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57747,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions\/57747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}