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Nabta Playa is an internally drained basin that served as an important
ceremonial center for nomadic tribes during the early part of the
Holocene epoch. Located 100 km west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt,
Nabta contains a number of standing and toppled megaliths. They include
flat, tomb-like stone structures and a small stone circle that predates
Stonehenge and other similar prehistoric sites by at least 1000 years.

These megaliths were constructed out of quartzite sandstone that came
from exposed sandstone that was at least a half -kilometer away. The
stones were erected and embedded into the playa. With the help of GPS
satellite technology, recent surveys by Wendorf and University of
Colorado at Boulder’s Astronomy Professor J. McKim Malville have allowed
them to map out the exact location of these stone alignments. These
studies confirm that one of the alignments of the megaliths form an
east-west line and another alignment forms a north-south line. The
calendar consists of a number of stones, the main ones being four pairs
of larger ones. Each of these four pairs were set close together to form
what Wendorf calls “gates.” Two of these pairs align to form a line very
close to a true north-south line¹, and the other two pairs or gates
align to form an east-west line. The east-west alignment is calculated
to be where the sun would have risen and set from the summer solstice
6,500 years ago.

 
Reference:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/nabtaplaya.html
<http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/nabtaplaya.html>
 
Notes:

   1.

      Unlike Stonehenge where nothing aligns north-south or east-west.