Word: carnelian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lying in a funerary chamber of white limestone, the mummy was covered from head to foot with gold ornaments. On its face was a gold mask in the shape of a hawk's head. Two badly decomposed skeletons nearby, one wearing a carnelian necklace, were presumed to be those of servants. The mummy itself reposed in a silver coffin, the first ever found in the burial chambers of the Pharaohs. In ancient Egypt silver was called "white gold," and, because it was rarer there than real gold, was held more precious...
...Eustis Winlock had ordered X-rays made of the Metropolitan's mummy collection. The plates showed that inside its wrappings the mummy of Wah was wearing a necklace of spherical beads, apparently gold or silver; another necklace of larger beads, apparently of silver; a third one of amethyst, carnelian or faience and a fourth which appeared to be of cylindrical stone beads. Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring. Unwrapping a mummy without destroying it is ticklish business, but Director Winlock plans...
...toughest contenders for first place will be Harvard and Cornell. Although the Crimson defeated the Carnelian's in the Quadrangular Meet this winter, the outdoor competition may be a different story...
...with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...
Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham...