Mystery of world’s only stretch of unclaimed land with NO laws that farmer tried to seize to make daughter a princess

HIDDEN deep in the African desert lies one of the strangest pieces of land on Earth — not for its beauty, wealth, or strategic value, but because no country wants it.

Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometre patch of barren desert between Egypt and Sudan, which remains an unusual geopolitical anomaly after decades of being unclaimed.

Flickr/Omar Robert HamiltonBir Tawil sits between Egypt and Sudan and has never been wanted by any country[/caption] FacebookJeremiah Heaton, from Virginia...