Why Is No One Talking About This Sahara Discovery? (Michael Button)

A thousand years before Stonehenge, people in the Egyptian Sahara were building stone circles, burying cattle in ceremonial tombs, and possibly tracking the stars.

Nabta Playa is one of the most extraordinary prehistoric sites ever discovered, forcing archaeologists to rethink where some of humanity's earliest astronomy, ritual, and complex societies first emerged.

So let's explore the mystery of Nabta Playa, what was discovered beneath the Sahara, and why this forgotten monument may have changed the course of human history...



Michael Button arguing for a very rich human prehistory that has been lost. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 9, 2026.]