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A camel-for-hire in colorful adornments waits for fares near Egypt's most popular sight—the Pyramids of Giza. These three massive structures (two are visible here) were built by tens of thousands of laborers over an 80-year span during the reigns of Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (about 2550 to 2470 B.C.), one of the largest building projects in the history of humankind.

Photograph by Martin Gray
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