El-Amrah, Egypt
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El-Amra
Map of Egypt showing El-Amra, (clickable map)
El-Amrah is a site about 120 km (75 mi) south of Badari, Upper Egypt.[1]
Archaeological discoveries in 1901 at El-Amrah, were the basis of what is now known as the Amratian culture, a Naqada I culture[2] of predynastic Upper Egypt, that lasted from 4400 BC to c. 3500 BC.[3]
Model cattle, El-Amra, Naqada I, British Museum EA 35506
Pre-Dynastic model house, El-Amra, Naqada IIC until 3200 BCE, British Museum EA35505
The Min Palette: a mudstone palette with the archaic hieroglyph for the god of fertility Min in relief. Pre-dynastic Naqada III. 3250-3100 BC. El-Amra
