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The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.