Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This quagmire exists silently, it seems: bombs dropping on the plains of the world's most ancient civilizations with the cameras all gone home, the news media no longer interested. Standing on the corner waiting for a cable car in San Francisco, I wondered did anyone still know or care about the situation...
...mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made of plaster-coated linen, or cartonnage, that was painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery vessels and figurines of Bes, whom Hawass describes as "the dwarf...
Freshman Mike Hochanadel is already making his bid for Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Filling in for injured first baseman Scott Perot, Hochanadel has performed brilliantly. His .417 batting average is fourth overall in the Ivy League and good enough for a spot on the Ancient Eight's weekly Honor Roll. In what may be an omen for his Harvard baseball future, Hochanadel smacked a home run in his first at bat in a Crimson uniform...
...COMMENT] First ancient human ancestor discovered in Africa, it was once thought to be the missing link between apes and humans...
...COMMENT] First ancient hominid found by the Leakeys. This skull's huge molars earned it the nickname "Nutcracker...