Description
Sine Ngayène is one of the largest megalithic sites in Senegal. It is part of the Senegambian Stone Circles, a group of prehistoric monuments spread across Senegal and The Gambia.
The site contains 52 stone circles, with more than a thousand upright stones. Some of these stones are over two metres high and weigh several tonnes. They were shaped from laterite and granite and transported from nearby quarries.
The circles were mainly associated with burial practices. Archaeologists have found graves, pottery and other objects, indicating that this was an important funerary landscape.
The monuments were not built at one particular moment. The site was used and modified over many centuries, from the first millennium BC into the second millennium AD.
In 2006, the Senegambian Stone Circles were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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