When I began to approximately understand the concept of the magnitude of age, years, elapsed times, etc. I suddenly realized how ancient the pyramids of Egypt are. Considering their greatness, complexity of construction and simple size - it was difficult to find in the world something suitable for this and the same age.
But more recently, structures were found in Egypt that are twice as old as the pyramids …
During excavations near Cairo, an international team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement that turned out to be one of the oldest in Egypt.
Excavations were carried out at Tel al-Samara, located in the Nile Delta, about 140 km from Cairo. The age of the discovered settlement is approximately 5,000 years, which makes it 2,500 years older than the oldest of the Egyptian pyramids - the pyramid of Djoser.
In the excavated settlement, the remains of dwellings and warehouses were discovered, in which the remains of plants and animal bones, as well as stone tools and ceramics were found. This indicates that the Egyptians of those times were engaged in approximately the same economy as their descendants.
Such ancient settlements in this area have not been previously discovered. An analysis of the organics found will make it possible to more clearly imagine the economic life of the Egyptians of that era.
The dynastic period of Egyptian history, with which we are more or less familiar, began with the unification of the country by Pharaoh Menes, who lived about three thousand years before our era. Menes founded the first dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs, and it is from this moment that what appears in textbooks as "the history of Ancient Egypt" begins. We know very little about the pre-dynastic (i.e., before Menes) period; written records of that era are extremely rare. The village that was found belongs to the period when, as far as one can judge, there was no written language at all.
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