Prehistory · Episode 11
Jebel Sahaba: The Oldest Massacre, Looked at Again
Sourced historyFor fifty years a Nile cemetery was the oldest known massacre. A new look at the same bones turned one event into a generation of raiding.
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Read the sourced articleCover image: The Nile, the Aswan High Dam and Lake Nasser, photographed from Space Shuttle mission STS-102 on 18 March 2001. Photo: NASA (source), Public domain.
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