26°8′35.22″N31°58′6.41″E / 26.1431167°N 31.9684472°E /26.1431167; 31.9684472
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El-Amra, (clickable map)
El-Amrah is a site about 120 km (75 mi) south ofBadari,Upper Egypt.[1]
Archaeological discoveries in 1901 at El-Amrah, were the basis of what is now known as theAmratian culture, aNaqada I culture[2] ofpredynasticUpper Egypt, that lasted from 4400 BC toc. 3500 BC.[3]
- ^David Randall-MacIver; A C Mace; F Ll Griffith El Amrah and Abydos, 1899-1901, (Offices of the Egypt exploration fund 1902, London, Boston, Mass.,).
- ^Grimal, Nicolas (1992). A History of Ancient Egypt. Blackwell. p. 28.
- ^Shaw, Ian, ed. (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 479.