• The Gerzeh culture, also called Naqada II, refers to the archaeological stage at Gerzeh (also Girza or Jirzah), a prehistoric Egyptian cemetery located...
    19 KB (1,712 words) - 00:57, 24 April 2024
  • El-Amrah was the first site where this culture group was found without being mingled with the later Gerzeh culture (Naqada II). However, this period is...
    10 KB (996 words) - 14:31, 5 February 2024
  • Trade with the oases was also likely. The Gerzeh culture ("Naqada II"), named after the site of el-Gerzeh, was the next stage in cultural development...
    58 KB (7,561 words) - 19:56, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Corded Ware culture
    Bronze Age. Corded Ware culture encompassed a vast area, from the contact zone between the Yamnaya culture and the Corded Ware culture in south Central Europe...
    73 KB (8,620 words) - 20:50, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Varna culture
    Varna culture was a Chalcolithic culture of northeastern Bulgaria, dated c. 4500 BC, contemporary and closely related with the Gumelnița culture. The oldest...
    14 KB (1,342 words) - 23:12, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crook and flail
    Crook and flail (category Gerzeh culture)
    fertility of the land. The earliest known example of a crook is from the Gerzeh culture (Naqada II), and comes from tomb U547 in Abydos [citation needed]. By...
    5 KB (494 words) - 18:06, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kerma culture
    The Kerma culture or Kerma kingdom was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. It flourished from around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia....
    32 KB (3,852 words) - 20:25, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nekhen
    Nekhen (category Amratian culture)
    3500–3200 BC. It shares distinctive imagery with artifacts from the Gerzeh culture. Nekhen was the center of the cult of a hawk deity, Horus of Nekhen...
    22 KB (2,064 words) - 15:03, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Serekh
    Serekh (category Gerzeh culture)
    The serekh first appears as an ornamental miniature during the late Gerzeh culture, when it was used as a royal crest only. From the Old Kingdom period...
    14 KB (1,907 words) - 22:02, 21 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Imiut fetish
    Imiut fetish (category Gerzeh culture)
    The Imiut fetish (jmy-wt) is a religious object that has been documented throughout the history of ancient Egypt. It was a stuffed, headless animal skin...
    3 KB (374 words) - 15:25, 25 April 2023