The first walled towns appear in Egypt.

Tombs also begin to be constructed in classic Egyptian style, being modeled like normal houses, and sometimes composed of multiple rooms.

Although excavations in the delta have still to be meticulously undertaken, these traits are interpreted as having come largely from the north, and are probably not indigenous to Upper Egypt.

The Egyptian deity Set, or Seth, is a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners.

Set is mostly depicted in art as a fabulous creature, referred to by Egyptologists as the Set animal or Typhonic beast, known as a Typhon, with a curved snout, square ears, forked tail, and canine body, or sometimes as a human with only the head of the Set animal.

It has no complete resemblance to any known creature, although it could be seen as a composite of an aardvark, a donkey, and a jackal.

The earliest representations of what may be the Seth animal comes from a tomb dating to the Naqada I phase of the Predynastic Period (circa 3790 BCE–3500 BCE), though this identification is uncertain.

If these are ruled out, then the earliest Set-animal appears on a mace-head of the Scorpion King, a Protodynastic ruler.

The head and forked tail of the Set-animal are clearly present.