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...artifacts littering the floors -- including beads, fragments of jars that were used to store the organs of the deceased, and mummified body parts -- promise to tell historians an enormous amount about ancient Egypt during the reign of its most important king. "Egyptians do not call him Ramesses II," Sabry Abd El Aziz, director of antiquities for the Qurna region, told TIME correspondent Lara Marlowe last week, as she and photographer Barry Iverson became the first Western journalists to enter the tomb since the new discoveries were announced. "We call him Ramesses al-Akbar-Ramesses the Greatest...
...arduous journey in those days, on winter roads to Marseilles and then by naval frigate to Tangier. It was made easier by his connections. The 34-year-old painter was traveling with his friend, a French diplomat named Charles de Mornay, sent to conclude a treaty with Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, the Sultan of Morocco. (France had conquered neighboring Algeria the year before and did not want any Moroccan interventions in its new colony.) The mission, including Delacroix, arrived in Morocco in January 1832 and stayed six months...
...These countries have recently emerged from repressive Western domination," Abd-Allah said. "Religious fundamentalism is an easy way to form the unity that formed under these regimes...
...Abd-Allah also stressed that the world of the Koran is "living" and that though it can change to conform to modern society, it keeps the tenets of moderation, charity, self-sacrifice, and devotion...
...living," Abd-Allah said. "Think and understand...the [Islamic] law does not function through dogma and tyrannical enforcement, but through adaptation and understanding...