Jebel Sahaba is considered the oldest cemetery discovered so far in the Nile Valley.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed Scientific Reports (Nature) study with radiocarbon dating, corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources with no contradicting evidence.
Sources
- The Skeletons of Jebel Sahaba - Archaeology Magazine (archaeology.org)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89386-y (nature.com)
- https://thearabweekly.com/prehistoric-cemetery-sudan-brings-insights-warfare (thearabweekly.com)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159958/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)