Gebel Ramlah, or "sandy mountain", is located in the south of Egypt's Western Desert, near the Sudanese border.[1] It is a 100 meter high hill, overlooking a playa directly to its south. During the intermittent humid periods of the African Neolithic, the desert playa was filled with water and fostered a lush savanna landscape.[2] Human occupation at Gebel Ramlah revolved around this paleo-lake.