Nabta Playa | 8000 Year Old Stone Circles In Southern Egypt & The Orion Connection | Megalithomania

Nabta Playa | 8000 Year Old Stone Circles in Southern Egypt & the Orion Connection | Megalithomania

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Dated to 7500 BC, the Napta Playa stone circles were located in
what was once a large internally drained basin in the Nubian Desert
about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt.

Sadly they were moved to the Nubian Museum in Aswan
where I took these pictures today.

Although not accepted by all, Astrophysicist Thomas G. Brophy
suggested that the that the southerly line
of three stones inside the Calendar Circle
represented the three stars of Orion’s Belt
and the other three stones
inside the calendar circle
represented the shoulders
and head stars of Orion
s they appeared in the sky.

These correspondences were for two dates
– circa 4800 BC
and at precessional opposition

– representing how the sky "moves" long term.

Brophy proposes that the circle was constructed and used circa the later date,
and the dual date representation was a conceptual representation
of the motion of the sky over a precession cycle.

Near the Calendar Circle, which is made of smaller stones,
there are alignments of large megalithic stones.

The southerly lines of these megaliths, Brophy argued,
align to the same stars as represented in the Calendar Circle,
all at the same epoch, circa 6270 BC.

Brophy argued that the Calendar Circle correlation with Orion's belt
occurred between 6400 BCE and 4900 BC,
matching radio-carbon dates of some campfires in the area.

Patricia Awyan


Photographer:
Patricia Awyan


Photographer:
Patricia Awyan