The Jebel Sahaba cemetery in northern Sudan is approximately 13,000 years old.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by British Museum, peer-reviewed Scientific Reports (2021), and independent Reuters coverage. The 13,000-year figure is a reasonable rounding of the more precise 13,400 cal BP dating.
Sources
- The Skeletons of Jebel Sahaba - Archaeology Magazine (archaeology.org)
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/violence-and-climate-change-prehistoric-egypt-and-sudan (britishmuseum.org)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89386-y (nature.com)
- https://thearabweekly.com/prehistoric-cemetery-sudan-brings-insights-warfare (thearabweekly.com)