Prehistoric Egypt
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Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human occupation of the region and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.
Artifacts of Egypt from the Prehistoric period, from 4400 to 3100 BC. First row from top left: a Badarian ivory figurine, a Naqada jar, a Bat figurine. Second row: a diorite vase, a flint knife, a cosmetic palette.
Nazlet Khater skeleton, Upper Paleolithic, 35,000 before present; National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo
Aterian point from Zaccar, Djelfa region, Algeria.
Merimde culture clay head, circa 5,000 BC. This is one of the earliest known representations of a human head in Egypt.
Kerma culture
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The Kerma culture or the Kingdom of Kerma was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan, in ancient Nubia. The culture developed from around 2500 BC, reaching its peak between 1750 BC and 1500 BC
Kerma
Tumulus from Kerma c. 2450 BC, National Museum of Sudan
Vessels from Sai island, Kerma culture, c. 2500-1500 BC. On display at the Musée du Louvre.
Daggers of bone and copper, 1750–1450 BC, Kerma, British Museum EA55442