Jebel Sahaba

War at Jebel Sahaba
Part of resource competition in the Nile valley
Jebel Sahaba Jebel Sahaba (Sudan)
Date c. 12th millennium BC (see Dating) Location Jebel Sahaba (جَبَل ٱلصَّحَابَة) (in the north of modern-day Sudan) 21°59′N 31°20′E / 21.983°N 31.333°E / 21.983; 31.333
Belligerents
Qadan people (probably)
Casualties and losses
61 killed

Jebel Sahaba (Arabic: جَبَل ٱلصَّحَابَة, romanized: Jabal Aṣ-Ṣaḥābah, lit. 'Mountain of the Companions'; also Site 117) is a prehistoric cemetery site in the Nile Valley (now submerged in Lake Nasser), near the northern border of Sudan with Egypt in Northeast Africa. It is associated with the Qadan culture.^[1] It was discovered in 1964 by a team led by Fred Wendorf.

The site is often cited as the oldest known evidence of warfare or systemic intergroup violence,^[2] although as of 2021 the earliest documented evidence of interpersonal violence appears to be the partial remains of a skeleton in Wadi Kubbaniya from 20 ka (i.e. 19th-18th millennium BC).^[1]