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Nabta Playa

What the Show Claims

  • Stone circle predates Stonehenge by 1,000 years
  • Astronomical alignments suggest advanced knowledge impossible for the era
  • May have been an alien observatory or calendar system

What Archaeology Says

A prehistoric ceremonial site in the Nubian Desert dating to around 5000 BC, predating Stonehenge by over 1,000 years. The stone circle and cattle burials suggest a complex pastoralist society with knowledge of astronomy. It represents indigenous African cultural development, not alien contact.

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