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    Naqada (Egyptian Arabic: نقادة‎ Naqāda; Coptic language: ⲛⲉⲕⲁⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ Nekatērion; Ancient Greek: Παμπανις Pampanis, Ancient Egyptian: Nbyt) is a town on...
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    Naqada III is the last phase of the Naqada culture of ancient Egyptian prehistory, dating from approximately 3200 to 3000 BC. It is the period during which...
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    32.73333 The Naqada culture is an archaeological culture of Chalcolithic Predynastic Egypt (c. 4000–3000 BC), named for the town of Naqada, Qena Governorate...
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    final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6200 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000 BC. The dates of the Predynastic period were first defined...
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  • Amratian culture (redirect from Naqada I)
    The Amratian culture, also called Naqada I, was an archaeological culture of prehistoric Upper Egypt. It lasted approximately from 4000 to 3500 BC. The...
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  • Gerzeh culture (redirect from Naqada II)
    The Gerzeh culture, also called Naqada II, refers to the archaeological stage at Gerzeh (also Girza or Jirzah), a prehistoric Egyptian cemetery located...
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  • Naqada is a town on the west bank of the Nile River in Egypt. Naqada may also refer to: Naqada culture, a material culture in Predynastic Egypt, or one...
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  • The siege of Naqada was a major land and naval battle between the forces of King Scorpion I and Naqada itself which had been suffering a two joint offensive...
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    dating to Naqada II and III, particularly in Hierakonpolis. Mesopotamian cylinder seals have been found in the Gerzean context of Naqada II, in Naqada and Hiw...
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    Nile boat (section Naqada II)
    option to Naqada boat builders. Naqada boats on ornated pottery vases Naqada II boat on pottery vase Naqada II boat on pottery vase Naqada II boat on...
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    millennium BC The Naqada culture is an archaeological culture of Chalcolithic Predynastic Egypt (c. 4400–3000 BC), named for the town of Naqada, Qena Governorate...
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    mainstream Egyptological consensus inconclusively identifies Menes with the Naqada III ruler Narmer or his successor, the First Dynasty pharaoh Hor-Aha. The...
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  • supposed Thinite Confederacy who absorbed their rival city states during the Naqada III period (c. 3200–3000 BC), and its subsequent unification with Lower...
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    copper. The Badari was followed by the Naqada culture: the Naqada I (Amratian), the Naqada II (Gerzeh), and Naqada III (Semainean). These brought a number...
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  • the Second Dynasty, lasting from the end of the archaeological culture of Naqada III until c. 2686 BC, or the beginning of the Old Kingdom. With the First...
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  • The pyramid of Naqada, also called the pyramid of Ombos, is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids, which were all erected far from...
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    also Jebel el-Arak Knife, is an ivory and flint knife dating from the Naqada II period of Egyptian prehistory (3500—3200 BC), showing Mesopotamian influence...
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  • indicate contact with distant Syria and Uruk.[2] Predynastic Egyptians in the Naqada I period traded with Nubia to the south, the oases of the western desert...
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    independently in Upper and Lower Egypt. The Badarian culture and the successor Naqada series are generally regarded as precursors to dynastic Egypt. The earliest...
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    Cosmetic palette (category Naqada III)
    Badarian Period and in Naqada I were usually plain, rhomboidal or rectangular in shape, without any further decoration. It is in the Naqada II period in which...
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    proto-literate symbol systems in the Early Bronze Age c. the 33rd century BC (Naqada III), with the first decipherable sentence written in the Egyptian language...
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    iconography found there was dated to the Naqada IIIA period, thus antedating royal cemeteries in Egypt of the Naqada IIIB phase. New evidence from Abydos...
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    Set animal (category Naqada III)
    use of the Set animal was upon the Scorpion Macehead of Scorpion II of Naqada III. It was soon thereafter portrayed mounted upon the serekhs of Seth-Peribsen...
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  • conventional Egyptian chronology. Prehistoric Egypt (prior to 3100 BC) Naqada III ("the protodynastic period", approximately 3100–3000 BC; sometimes referred...
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  • century that lasted from the year 3400 BC to 3301 BC. Stage IIIa2 of the Naqada culture in Egypt (dated in 1998). Archaic forms of cuneiform emerge in the...
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    of Upper Egypt then became unified under rulers from Abydos during the Naqada III period (3200–3000 BCE), at the expense of rival cities, especially Nekhen...
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    Kish/ Assur Akshak/ Akkad Uruk Adab Umma Lagash Ur Elam 4000–3200 BCE Naqada I Naqada II Egypt-Mesopotamia relations Pre-Dynastic period (4000–2900 BCE)...
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    greywacke, mudstone, etc. The oldest cosmetic palettes from the Badarian, or Naqada I period are less adorned than later versions; also some gradation of ornateness...
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    Ivory statuette of a woman with dwarfism, Gerzeh culture (Naqada II), in the Prehistoric Egypt era...
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  • the Naqada and the Nubian series. Further, the Nubian A-Group plotted nearer to the Egyptians and the Lachish sample placed more closely to Naqada than...
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