Marimda Banī Salāma

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Marimda Banī Salāma was a significant Neolithic settlement in Egypt, dating back to the 6th–5th millennium BCE. Located on the southwestern edge of the Nile Delta, this site provides evidence of early settled agriculture, with inhabitants cultivating cereals. The site is notable for its large size and long period of occupation, where people lived in simple huts and may have practiced burying their dead within their homes. Pottery was a common element in their culture. Marimda Banī Salāma is considered one of the earliest known Neolithic cultures in Egypt, contributing to our understanding of the transition from nomadic life to settled farming in the region.1

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…Egypt have been found at Marimda Banī Salāma, on the southwestern edge of the delta, and farther to the southwest, in Al-Fayyūm. The site at Marimda Banī Salāma, which dates to the 6th–5th millennium bce, gives evidence of settlement and shows that cereals were grown. In Al-Fayyūm, where evidence dates…
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…Egypt have been found at Marimda Banī Salāma, on the southwestern edge of the delta, and farther to the southwest, in Al-Fayyūm. The site at Marimda Banī Salāma, which dates to the 6th–5th millennium bce, gives evidence of settlement and shows that cereals were grown. In Al-Fayyūm, where evidence dates…
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