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...long corridor. When Kitov broke through the stone walls covering the entrances, he found the first room contained the remains of a sacrificed horse. The grave itself is in the third chamber, carved out of a single block of limestone weighing more than 60 tons. Inside was a ritual deathbed, a resting place for the spirit, covered in gold thread. But no bones: the body was most likely burned or buried. Kitov believes the tomb, which was built around 150 years later than the one that contained the mask, belonged to King Seuthes III, who ruled in the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasures Fit For The Kings | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...repressive measures, including detention in unknown locations and house arrests. And he says other activists have been harassed or arrested in the country's Fergana, Kashkadaryinsk and Djizak regions. Karimov's government has repeatedly rejected calls for an independent inquiry, despite mounting international pressure. "Karimov is digging his own grave," says Oleg Panfilov, a Central Asia expert in Moscow. "The tragedy is he's dragging his entire country along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silence After The Storm | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

Investigators found that the 19-year-old Tut was missing his left kneecap and had suffered a grave leg fracture that may have become fatally infected. His odd skull shape was genetic, not a deformity. He also had a badly impacted wisdom tooth and a broken right ankle that appears to have been encased in a sort of cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unmasking King Tut | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

After reading his column, third-year law student Tammy Pettinato said she was “horrified.” “The Vie Society doesn’t just hail the end of HLS feminism—it dances on its grave in spike-heeled shoes,” she wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Barbara R. Barreno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At HLS, Girls Get Toasted, then Roasted | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...Well,” he says in a somber tone, “I just think somebody has made a grave mistake...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Many Faces of John Lithgow | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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