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Abusir Desert, Abusir, Egypt, 1998

Located several miles south of the Pyramids at Giza, Abusir's smaller pyramids mark the burials of forgotten kings and queens of the 5th dynasty. Here also is a cemetery of shaft tombs from the sixth century B.C., when the Persians invaded Egypt. At the bottom of one of these shafts is a rare archaeological find: the unlooted tomb of Iuffaa, an Egyptian priest.

—From "Abusir Tomb," November 1998, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett