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Honoring Ramses II—the most powerful king of Egypt’s 19th dynasty—these 60-plus-foot-tall statues stand at the entrance of The Great Temple of Abu Simbel.

Paleontologists have unearthed a massive 70-million-year-old megaraptor from ancient Argentina, one of the most complete megaraptors yet found.

Dubbed Joaquinraptor casali, the team believes it stretched more than 23 feet (7 meters) long and weighed over a ton. Most interestingly is that the predator died with what may have been its last meal still locked in its jaws, offering insight into its lifestyle, diet, and habits, as well as those of other megaraptors.

Find out more about this fascinating discovery at: https://on.natgeo.com/4nM1aNM

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A Pristine Seas diver films bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico.

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Orangutan seen using medicinal plants to heal a wound for first time ever The observation provides a window into how our own ancestors may have developed their natural medicines.

Pamukkale

Pamukkale is a town in western Turkey known for the mineral-rich thermal waters flowing down white travertine terraces on a nearby hillside. It neighbors Hierapolis, an ancient Roman spa city founded around 190 B.C. Ruins there include a well-preserved theater and a necropolis with sarcophagi that stretch for 2km. The Antique Pool is famous for its submerged Roman columns, the result of an earthquake.

Santorini

Santorini is one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. It was devastated by a volcanic eruption in the 16th century BC, forever shaping its rugged landscape. The whitewashed, cubiform houses of its 2 principal towns, Fira and Oia, cling to cliffs above an underwater caldera (crater). They overlook the sea, small islands to the west and beaches made up of black, red, and white lava pebbles.

Old Bagan

Bagan (bəɡàɴ; also called Pagan) is an ancient city in the Mandalay region of Myanmar. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan from the 9th to 13th centuries. During the kingdom's golden age between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were built in Bagan.

Now, the archaeological remains of over 2,200 of these temples and pagodas are in the surrounding plains. It is one of the biggest places for tourism in the country.