One of the sites featured in the film, Nabta Playa, is believed to be the world's earliest astronomical site, some estimating it to be as old as around 4800 B.C.
The potential significance of Nabta as a ceremonial site was further strengthened by the discovery of an arrangement of stone megaliths (large free standing stones) on the western edge of the Nabta basin. Some of these stones had been carefully shaped, and weighed up to one and a half tons. They appeared to radiate out from a central point.
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