The 5 oldest ancient human monuments in Egypt

Egypt has long captivated the world with its timeless monuments, towering pyramids, and cryptic hieroglyphs — but beneath the golden sands lies an even deeper story: the very roots of human civilization.

In this article, we journey beyond the tourist trail to uncover the five oldest human excavation relics ever found in Egypt. Each artifact is a silent witness to an age before the dynasties — a time when ancient humans first carved their presence into the Nile Valley. Prepare to step into a world where bones, tools, and forgotten art tell stories that predate the pyramids themselves.

The age of man relative to the age of the Earth

Opinions always differ about the period in which man inhabited the earth, as geological studies indicate that the earth is more than four billion years old, while the age of human existence on Earth is barely approaching 230,000 years, and the amazement does not stop at this point, but also about the fact that the difference between the age of man's existence on Earth and the oldest civilization known to mankind did not appear until more than 220,000 years after the existence of man on Earth, but some scientists They attribute this giant difference to the fact that writing and history on materials that can withstand the conditions that the earth is going through and remain steadfast came late with the civilizations in the Near East and Egypt, and this does not necessarily mean that man did not know civilization throughout that period until the last ten thousand years of his life on earth, but perhaps it means that those civilizations did not withstand the factors that faced them on earth, even if they once existed.

The most important and oldest five human monuments found in Egypt

It contains many important and distinct monuments in the history of mankind, as mentioned above, which to this day still raise the astonishment of scientific communities such as the skull, which proves that the ancient Egyptians knew the treatment of cancer with surgical interventions that are being researched and a similar group these days, and these are five examples of ancient human traces in Egypt from prehistoric times without chronological order.

1.Two mountain mummies

It is a group of 6 mummies dating back to the predynastic era, specifically since approximately 3400 BC, that is, before the unification carried out by King "Narmer" of the two countries of Egypt and the establishment of the first dynasty according to the history of Maniton Samannoudi. The group contains mummies belonging to men and women, and the civilization to which this group is attributed is a Neolithic civilization that was located in the region of "two mountains" near Abydos in southern Egypt. What distinguishes this group of mummified mummies is that they are the oldest complete mummies found and that they were buried in the sand directly in the position of the fetus.

2. Ammartia Scepter

The scepter dates back to the Amarti civilization (Umrah - Naqada I), which was also in southern Egypt dating back to the fourth millennium BC, and the scepter is all made of wood except for the cylindrical upper part and is very similar to the scepter or "funnel" that was held by King "Narmer" in his famous painting.

3.Clay head

A primitive clay statue dating back to the civilization of Marash Bani Salama from the north of Egypt, specifically in an area belonging to the Giza Governorate now, as for the history of this head, it dates back approximately to the middle of the fourth millennium BC and perhaps a little more, and it is now displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Scorpion King Funnel

Funnel or pin fighting King Scorpion II, who is believed to have been the last king of southern Egypt before the unification carried out by King "Narmer" in 3200 BC

5.Skull No. 236

It is a skull that is being researched these days, which proves that the ancient Egyptians knew surgical intervention to treat cancer and dates back approximately to the fourth millennium BC and appears on the skull traces of surgeries undergone to get rid of a malignant tumor was threatening the owner of this skull, which was estimated to be between 30 to 35 years before his death.

Fleeing monuments from loss in the folds of history

It is certain that dealing with all those years and the natural factors that erase many important traces in human lives has never been easy, and this explains the lack of traces that tell us about the form of life in the eras called "prehistoric times" in which writing and documenting events play the difference between the many remaining traces of the civilizations that existed before and after them.

One of the most important places in the world that witnessed that era and contains among its treasures a lot that it has not allowed until the present moment is "Egypt", and it has many monuments that indicate human existence since ancient times.