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Giza, Egypt (map), 2002
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett

Excavations on Cairo's westernmost outskirts have revealed what archaeologist Mark Lehner calls a "royal production center," at lower right, that fed and equipped pyramid workers at Giza. To the left lies a cemetery dug into a cliff containing some of the builders' tombs.

Text adapted from "The Pyramid Builders," November 2001, National Geographic magazine

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