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...took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century. To get a shot of the interior of one of those caves, the duo had to be lowered from the top of the cliff by means of ropes and handmade ladders...
...rung below these dream and scream queens are such hardworking actresses as lissome Maria Ford, 25, who has made 40 DTVs (Burial of the Rats, Naked Obsession) in eight years but says she earned less than $25,000 last year. "You have to love to act," she says. "The food is always bad; you never get any sleep; you work 17-hour days; the scripts change at the last minute." Ford's theory of nude scenes: "I'm willing to take off my clothes for 10% of a film so I can act in the other...
...good King--bad King labels, which date to an apocryphal--and now discounted--tale told by the Greek historian Herodotus about how Khufu prostituted his own daughter to pay for his pyramid. Good or bad, Snefru ended up in the Red Pyramid, entombed in a magnificent three-room burial chamber that is considered the finest of the Old Kingdom. The chamber, with its 45-ft. corbel ceiling, remains. Its royal occupant, however, is missing. A mummy discovered in the pyramid in 1948 and believed to contain Snefru's corpse disappeared shortly afterward and has never been found...
Ludwig van Beethoven probably thought he was taking his secrets to the grave when he died in 1827. He thought wrong. While the composer was decorously interred in his beloved Vienna, most of his hair wasn't; souvenir-hunting fans snipped off so much of his silver mane before burial that he went to his tomb almost bald...
...museum director, Pilbeam is leading a million dollar project to comply with the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which requires museums to identify and possibly return all human remains and many types of burial artifacts to the Native American tribes with which they originated...