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ENTOMBED WITH GOLD AND silver symbols of spiritual and temporal power, the Moche rulers of ancient Peru took their treasures, and their secrets, to the grave. Archaeologists studying extant murals, metalworks and ceramics could sketch an inexact portrait of the pre-Incan civilization that vanished around A.D. 800, but they were frustrated by the many remaining blank spaces. The absence of a written language meant there was no sure guide to lead them back to the lost culture...
...History curator Craig Morris, combines art with science to highlight the objects' aesthetic appeal and at the same time emphasize modern archaeological techniques. "Each piece must be understood in relationship to everything else," he explains. Alva and his team made sure that the position of the items in each grave was recorded and analyzed. An ornament in closest proximity to the body, for example, had the greatest symbolic significance and conveyed the role of the person in the highly organized Moche society...
...frenzy that followed the original looting of the tombs seven years ago seemed like footage from an Indiana Jones movie. International collectors and dealers in antiquities joined huaqueros, the Peruvian term for grave robbers, in a rush for Sipan gold. During raids, police were able to confiscate some stolen material, and one huaquero was killed. Then, with the digging site secured and under guard, Alva and a team of archaeologists and workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing...
...SPREADING LABOR UNREST IS also testimony to the difficulty of converting a welfare state, with cradle-to-grave protections for workers, to what Beijing's leaders call a "socialist market economy." China may boast one of the world's fastest-growing gross domestic products -- GDP shot up 13.4% in 1993 and at nearly a 13% annual rate in the first quarter of 1994 -- but at least for the short term, the process of converting to a market economy has cost China many more jobs than it has created. State-run factories, which still employ more than two-thirds of China...
...death so much as his having written so often about it. Mortality hung on his plays like crape. While awaiting his own demise, Philip Marlow, the hero of The Singing Detective, plots the death of all who may have hurt him. Lipstick on Your Collar climaxes at a grave site, where one of the three main characters is dead, a second falls into the open grave, and a third woos the widow -- all to the '50s tune Sh-Boom! "We're the one animal that knows we're going to die," Potter said. "And yet we carry on, behaving...