Word: ankh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomb, whose discovery was announced last Tuesday, is reported to be some 1700 years older than that of Tut-Ankh-Amen. Dr. Reisner, who has just returned from Egypt, declared that the tomb is probably that of an Egyptian princess and not of the Cheops or Sneferuw as it was at first reported. From the reports received from his assistants and from his own knowledge of the situation, Dr. Reisner concludes the tomb to be of the Fourth Dynasty. If Dr. Reisner's conclusion proves to be true, this new tomb is the only important intact tomb antedating the Sixth...
Once more the exposition of King Tût-ankh-Amen's private life, personal trinkets and royal attributes is to be undertaken in the interests of Science. From Cairo, last week, came a report that Howard Carter has signed an agreement with the Egyptian Government, the details of which were not made public...
...Mauretania (Cunard)?Howard Carter, famed discoverer of Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb; Medill McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois ; Olga Petrova, actress...
...race that launched a thousand ships" belonged not to a poetic ideal but to a very real person, may lie the seeds of a possible renascence of interest in the study of Greek. Dr. Breasted believes from examinations which he has been conducting among the entombed records of Tut-ankh-amen that Helen of Troy actually lived, and that the much doubted Trojan war was considerably more than a mere fight of fancy on the part of Homer...
...silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that neither Chaplin, nor anyone else, for that matter, is entitled to a monopoly of such a makeup, which was used among the natives "even in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen." While a temporary injunction was obtained, there has been no permanent decision...