Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story on U.S.-Israeli relations was a new experience for TIME Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who normally operates out of Cairo. His past assignments have included interviewing the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia for TIME'S 1975 Man of the Year cover, and six months later joining Egyptian President Anwar Sadat aboard the first ship to pass through the reopened Suez Canal...
...week's end the frost had melted?a little. More important, Israel, the U.S., the Arab states and the Soviet Union were close to agreement in principle on a formula that might, with a little bit of luck, allow the Geneva conference to meet this year after all. As Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy put it, "Things are moving." Or, in Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's somewhat more cautious formulation, they were "inching along...
Ozymandias, as the Greeks called Ramses II, was a compulsive builder of temples, palaces and statues. But Ramses, who reigned in the 13th century B.C., was not the only Egyptian ruler with an edifice complex; every pharaoh, from 3,000 B.C. on, helped assure his immortality by leaving behind monuments of many kinds and shapes to his greatness. For many years the temple complex at Karnak has stood out as one of the most remarkable of these works...
...evident on the grounds: a gate dating from the reign of Taharqa, one of the Nubian kings who ruled Egypt in the 25th dynasty, and the remains of a chapel from the Ptolemaic period. The archaeologists have also discovered priests' quarters, which could provide new information about ancient Egyptian religious practices. Their hope, of course, is that even more dramatic artifacts lie waiting to be unearthed. A small rise overlooking the temple is dotted with large stone heads of sphinxes, and team members believe that monumental statues lie just beneath them, waiting to be revealed by further excavation next...
...depicted as a vulture -have yet been found in the temple that is dedicated to her or on the surrounding grounds. But the site abounds with statues of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess whose association with fire, war and pestilence made her one of the most powerful in the Egyptian pantheon...