Badari culture is so named because of its discovery at El-Badari (Arabic: البداري), an area in the Asyut Governorate in Upper Egypt. It is located between Matmar and Qau, approximately 200 km (120 mi) northwest of present-day Luxor (ancient Thebes).

Badarian culture, Egyptian predynastic cultural phase, first discovered at Al- Badārī, its type site, on the east bank of the Nile River in Asyūṭ muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Upper Egypt. British excavations there during the 1920s revealed cemeteries dating to about 4000 bce.

Jan 15, 2025 · The Badarian culture represents the earliest direct evidence of agriculture in Upper Egypt during the Predynastic Era. Flourishing between 4400 and 4000 BCE, it might have originated as early as 5000 BCE.

The Badarian culture is one of the earliest known prehistoric cultures in Upper Egypt, dating to the late Neolithic period, roughly between 4400 BCE and 4000 BCE. It is named after the site of El-Badari, where significant archaeological finds were first discovered.

Dec 12, 2021 · The Predynastic Period begins in the middle areas of Egypt with the so-called Badarian culture, a name given to group a series of archaeological sites – six hundred tombs with rich funerary equipment and forty little-investigated settlements – distributed over more than thirty kilometers of the eastern bank of the Nile.

The Badarian culture is the first farming culture in Upper Egypt. The Badarian people already used metal and they produced the first glazed objects. They lived in small villages in Upper Egypt. Settlements seem to be occupied only for a short times. The huts seem to be built from very lightweight material.

The Badarian Culture is the earliest attestation of agriculture in Upper Egypt and was first identified in the region of Badari near Sohag. A large number of mainly small sites yielded a total of about 600 graves and 40 poorly documented settlements.

Jul 9, 2024 · The Badarian culture, dating from around 4400 to 4000 BC, derives its name from the Badari site near Der Tasa. It succeeded the Tasian culture, but their similarities lead many to view them as part of a continuous period.

An archaeological re-evaluation of the Badarian culture and relevant sites is presented in the introduction. Interregional development of the Badarian is crucial to placing the Badarian in the temporal ladder of the predynastic cultures, leading up the formation of …

Apr 4, 2025 · A predynastic agrarian culture of the period 4500–3250bc in Egypt, named after the site of El Badari in Middle Egypt. Its most distinctive material culture is its fine pottery, thin‐walled and ripple‐burnished, with a black band around the top of brown or red walls.