the 'oldest observatory on earth' thing — I tried to poke holes in it and one bit got me

Everyone keeps sharing Nabta Playa as THE oldest stargazing site, older than Stonehenge by thousands of years, blah blah. So I sat down to debunk the hype because honestly half the ancient-astronomy stuff online is people seeing patterns in random rocks. Site's in the Nubian desert, like 100km west ……