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    StormtrooprDave: Where are all the people? more »
    lazyeight: To Most: Third world much? Folks do what they gotta do to survive. If they can eke a living out of this, then good on them. You may note that no Zabba... more »
    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I don't even need the Professor's Smell-O-Scope to tell me what unholy odors are emanating from that place... more »
    Ryanrule: Civilization brought to people who would rather fuck and eat in their own feces. Keep praying to your god, THAT will fix it. more »
    commentotron: The Zabbaleen (Egyptian Arabic: زبالين "garbage people"[1]) are an Egyptian community of mainly Coptic Christians who were allowed to collect an... more »
    Ozzieball: [www.slate.com] An interesting article related to this. A lot of people involved in the garbage disposal in Egypt are Christians, and they use them t... more »
    tuckertuck: You might wanna close your windows before the sun hits Diaper Hill! more »
    EugeniaBSG: Wow...a glimpse into our future under the "sustainable, green economy" that the current administration is pushing! "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ... more »
    gbmbg: "Put on your Sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there, get out the brillantine and dime cigars..." more »
    jerome_stanley: Where is the battle angel Alita? I dont see Tiphares floating above this place! more »
    Segador: "But Zabbaleen is actually a thriving community..." Looks pretty....thriving. Yes. That's the word. more »
    Piero Capurro: That's why we need pharaohs, and all those kinds of shitty kinds of government. more »
    larry_832: Holy shit! It's the opening scene from Wall-E. more »
    crosis101: No. Ultra Magnus lives! on the Planet of Junk! THEY'RE INDESTRUCTIBLE! AND THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! more »
    OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: There is only one thing to do in a situation like this: garbage angels. more »
    Hamslicer: This is crazy. A whole economy based on the waste of another. Geez. more »
    cadrina: here on Brasil we have a lot of people that lives of colecting trash, altough in here they are after only metal and sometimes paper, usually. Anyway, ... more »
    AaronProtesilaus: First up, the city is called Manshiyat naser, not Zabbaleen. The Zabbaleen are the people living there. Jeez you can see the trash on Google Earth t... more »
    cylon_conspiracy: Interesting to see how people make the best of a bad situation. This is obviously not anything anyone here would ever want to experience first-hand i... more »
    ♠ Final ♠: The Trash-heap has spoken! more »
  • #garbagecity

    Egypt's Trash City Only Looks Like the Garbage Apocalypse

    Somewhere buried under all those bags of trash is the Egyptian city of Zabbaleen, where garbage reigns supreme. It looks like an object lesson, warning us of some impending garbage apocalypse, but there's something entirely different at work. More »
  • #megaanthropology

    See the Submerged Ruins of Cleopatra's Palace in Egypt's Underwater Museum

    In a few years, you may be able to see Alexandria the way it once was — deep beneath the sea. The areas of classical Alexandria that contained the ancient world's biggest library along with Cleopatra's palace have sunk beneath the waves, but now it looks as if the United Nations may step in and help Egypt show off these structures in a unique underwater museum (architectural drawing above). Above the water, the museum will have illuminated sail-like structures and be connected to the mainland via fiberglass tunnel. Want to gawk at some of the underwater treasures that museum visitors might see? More »