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Full military burial services for Adamouski at Arlington National Cemetery are tentatively slated for the week following Easter...
...hard to keep track of all our ancient treasures, especially when modernization is one of our national goals." Indeed, last year in Leshan, a decidedly modern Oriental Buddha security guard told a visiting art historian not to worry about the tombs' destruction as nobody would miss musty, old burial sites anyway?especially when a fancy, new statue would draw hordes of Chinese package tourists...
...standing buddha, maybe like the one at Bamiyan," concedes Oriental Buddha's general manager Chen Jian. "But in many ways it's quite different." Chen also asserts that no tombs were destroyed during the statue's construction. But local archaeologists say the entire hill was pockmarked with ancient burial sites, and there is no way a 37-meter buddha could have been built without displacing many tombs...
...pyramid view. These days such rooms are available on short notice at $240 a night for a double room with 3.6-meter ceilings. The walls are covered with teak carved in arabesque patterns and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. From a small private balcony, you can view Cheops' burial place...
...pyramid view. These days such rooms are available on short notice at $240 a night for a double room with 12-ft. ceilings. The walls are covered with teak carved in arabesque patterns and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. From a small private balcony, you can view Cheops' burial place...