Egypt

So I was on the New York Times website and found this article on the discovery of a Egyptian settlement revealing "extensive remains of a settlement - apparently an administrative, economic and military center — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the western desert 110 miles west of Luxor and 300 miles south of Cairo. No such urban center so early in history had ever been found in the forbidding desert."

Have a read of the article and look at the pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/science/07archeo.html?_r=1&hp