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Images from SPLASH! #2

From the Prologue
Once Upon a Time in Egypt

Continuing my series of images from my new book SPLASH! 10,000 YEARS OF SWIMMING. This is from the Prologue: “Once Upon a Time in Egypt.”
 
Looking out the mouth of the Cave of the Swimmers, at Wadi Sura on the stark Gilf Kebir in the eastern Sahara. As measured by the aridity index, Wadi Sura is the driest spot on Earth. (Credit: Carlos de la Fuente, altered to black & white.)
 
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Images from SPLASH!

From the Prologue
Once Upon a Time in Egypt

Eight-thousand-year-old pictographs found in the Cave of the Swimmers at Wadi Sura, in the southwest Egyptian desert. (Roland Unger, altered to black & white)

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