Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

Calendar Circle had been moved to the Nubian Museum, Schild offered that either Dr. Ragheb did not want to disclose
the information to Bauval or that he had misunderstood Bauval’s question. Schild insisted that “the calendar, and other
selected Nabta monuments, had been removed from their original place on February 18, 2008, in my presence as well as
in the presence of a number of the members of the Expedition and a Special High Committee of the Supreme Council of
Antiquities headed by an Undersecretary of State. The entire removal was filmed and intensively photographed. The
antiquities were immediately taken to the Nubian Museum in Aswan in a separate convoy escorted by the police. Dr.
Osama, Director of the Museum, received the convoy and its load at the Museum.” 1
Figure A4. Top: Robert Bauval and the director of the Nubian Museum with the broken cow stone scupture, April 2008.
Bottom: Bauval and John Anthony West examine a piece of the broken cow stone at the Nubian Museum in 2003.
Figure A5. Left: Prehistoric grinding block seen near Nabta Playa in 2007. Right: A similar grinding block used as an
ashtray at a hotel.
As for the rubbish on the site, Schild at first offered that it had been left by tourists. When Bauval, however, said that
the evidence pointed to the rubbish being from the CPE, Schild offered that perhaps it had been interred in a pit and now,
for some unknown reason, someone had excavated the pits and exposed the rubbish. On June 12, Bauval received an email
from Dr. Schild in which Schild stated that “since May 2007 I am not heading the CPE any more, although, I have
been responsible for some of the projects carried out by the CPE, like the archaeological operations undertaken in
conjunction with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, i.e., salvage of Nabta monuments.” It was also at this
stage that Dr. Schild informed Bauval, “Nabta has been earmarked for an extensive reclamation, i.e., total destruction, as
a part of the Tushka project.”
Since 1997, the Egyptian government has launched a series of large civil engineering projects to reclaim the arid
Western Desert and turn 1.5 million acres into agricultural land. The projects are broadly divided into two parts: (1) to
build a canal fed by Lake Nasser that will deliver billions of cubic meters of water to irrigate various regions of the
desert as far north as the Qattara Depression, and (2) to extract groundwater from natural aquifers, mostly from the east
Uwainat region, a few hundred kilometers west of Abu Simbel. To date the first phase of the canal project, known as the
Sheikh Zayed Canal, has been completed. It involves a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) concrete-lined canal that is fed by