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. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- The Skeletons of Jebel Sahaba - Archaeology Magazine (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89386-y (corroboration)
- https://thearabweekly.com/prehistoric-cemetery-sudan-brings-insights-warfare (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159958/ (corroboration)