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Digging into the mysteries of Mut, Tut and Sekhmet...
...near modern Luxor in Upper Egypt around 2000 B.C. and was continuously added to by generations of succeeding rulers. Now, however, this temple in all its splendor may have a rival. A team from New York's Brooklyn Museum has begun excavating the grounds of the temple of Mut (pronounced Moot), Amon's consort, a few hundred meters south of the temple of Amon, and has hit archaeological pay dirt. The new site, which was used continuously from around 1400 B.C. until as late as Roman times, not only links many of Egypt's most illustrious pharaohs...
...most pernicious, effect of Christmas is the identity crisis it can cause among kids who are not white or Anglo-Saxon or Protestant. Little black kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live with the suspicion, even while they are trimming a tree or opening a Christmas present, that somewhere in this story of brotherly love there's a villain, and it appears to be themselves...
Steppat's friend, Anthropologist Hell-mut De Terra, dug up Tepexpan Man last February near Mexico City. When Steppat saw the skull he decided to combine sculpture and science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
...vino veritas," he smiled cheerfully as he lurched into the exam. Appearing ninety minutes later, he qualified his statement with "Veritas, may be, but not mut French C. Next time we'll try absinthe...