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December 16, 2002

Young Goatherds, Abusir, Egypt, 1997

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett

Kids drive home goats in Abusir, Egypt, near the undisturbed tomb of an Egyptian priest. "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 (2470-2350 B.C.). Here also is a cemetery of shaft tombs from the sixth century B.C., when the Persians invaded Egypt."

—Text from "Abusir Tomb," National Geographic magazine, November 1998

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Abusir Tomb," National Geographic magazine, November 1998)