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...archaeologist may have failed to convince the world this year that she had uncovered the tomb of Alexander the Great in Egypt, but now another has clearly hit pay dirt. Today, French archaeologist Jean Leclant unveiled a previously unknown, 4,000-year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been...
Nobody can do more than speculate about the answer. That uncertainty, along with the spottiness of the archaeological record-even in an intensively studied area like southern France-makes it hard to know whether art, once invented, was a universal practice. Probably not, argues archaeologist Olga Soffer, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Art is a social phenomenon that appears and disappears and, in some places, may not arise at all." But many anthropologists counter that the term art is usually defined too narrowly. What paleolithic humans really invented, they say, is symbolic representation, and by that definition...
...What archaeologist Leana Souvaltze, who led the Greek team, actually found are three stone tablets bearing inscriptions that purportedly relate to Alexander's death, along with the remains of two large stone chambers. The artifacts come from a site in Egypt's Western Desert, near the oasis of Siwa-- the place where, as legend has it, Alexander received a favorable reading from an oracle. Near the end of his life, goes the story, he said he wanted to be buried at Siwa...
...public has an unprecedented chance to peer over the shoulders of archaeologists and historians and get a firsthand look at the legacy of the Mongols and their Asian predecessors. A traveling exhibition called "Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan" opened last week at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City after a hugely successful five-month run at California's Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The show features more than 200 artifacts dating from roughly 2000 B.C. through the dynasty founded by Genghis Khan's grandson, Kubilai Khan, in the 13th...
...display in New York City's American Museum of Natural History, along with a full-size reproduction of the burial site of a ruler called the Warrior Priest, or the Lord of Sipan. The wealth of information gained from the tombs' contents outshines the dazzling finds. Says archaeologist Walter Alva, director of the Museo Nacional Bruning de Lambayeque, who has overseen the excavation since the first days: "Sipan's importance for science transcends the glitter of the gold...