Plus: Tut's tangled family tree; an extraordinary map; the wacky world of seahorses
| Extraordinary people, discoveries, and places | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPHS BY ARALDO DE LUCA (LEFT), BPK/SCALA, FLORENCE (RIGHT) | | | An unprecedented look into the lives of an Egyptian power couple | | For nearly four decades, Amenhotep III and his great royal wife, Tiye—the grandparents of King Tut—ruled together over a time of peace and prosperity in ancient Egypt. This placid period is a gift for today's archaeologists and historians because of the wealth of records it left behind: from a series of soapstone scarabs documenting the king's early years, to the 250-some palaces, temples, and monuments decorated with works of art that tell the story of their reign. | | | |
 | | EGYPTIAN MUSEUM OF CAIRO | | | |  | | KENNETH GARRETT, NG IMAGE COLLECTION | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JAMES HARRELL, UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO | | | The world's first geologic map was far ahead of its time | | More than 3,000 years ago, a government official took a roll of papyrus and sketched out the features of a valley in Egypt's Eastern Desert with astonishing detail and accuracy. It's so rare, in fact, the next known geologic map doesn't appear in the historical record for another 29 centuries. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JAMES HARRELL, UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO | | | The Permian extinction almost ended life on Earth as we know it | | About 250 million years ago, long before the reign of the dinosaurs began, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land, less than a third of the large animal species made it. Nearly all the trees died. Scientists are still trying to identify the killer responsible. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER, HIPPOCAMPUS ANGUSTUS, SEAHORSE WORLD, BEAUTY POINT, TASMANIA | | | The weird, wondrous world of seahorses | | They look like a mix of other animals—a horse's head, a chameleon's independent eyes and camo skills, a kangaroo's pouch, a monkey's prehensile tail—the males give birth, and we still have much to learn about them. Now these unique fish are threatened. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY OFOBS, AWI TEAM | | | If alien life exists in our solar system, it may look like this | | The elusive zone where these creatures thrive is called the Aurora hydrothermal vent field. It's one of the closest Earth-analogs to the seafloor vents that are thought to be erupting on faraway ocean worlds, including the ice-encrusted moons Europa and Enceladus, which are considered among the best places to look for existing extraterrestrials. | | | |
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