Word: sarcophagi
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...That suggests to Weeks that the rooms weren't burial chambers but rather "chapels" for funeral offerings. And cracks in these rooms and in four of the massive pillars in the larger chamber are clues that the floors are unsupported-that hollow areas lie below. Could they contain intact sarcophagi with mummies inside? "I'm hoping," says Weeks...
...their trials proceeded in Spain's military courts, the case of the terrorists began to attract international attention. Plastique explosives blasted Iberia offices in Rome and Paris. A bomb threat at the Louvre, the first in the museum's history, sent police hunting through hundreds of Egyptian sarcophagi and Oriental vases. Early last week a delegation of French artists and intellectuals-among them Actor Yves Montand and Leftist Author Régis Debray-flew to Madrid to protest the sentences. They were quickly expelled. Official notes of protest were issued by the European Economic Community and United Nations...
...result, the set-up of the museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over...
What he saw was a glimpse of the world's most legendary treasure: the stupendous array of gold shrines, jewels, portrait masks, gilded pharaonic furniture and sarcophagi that had gone down with Tutankhamen into the dark. It was the first Egyptian royal tomb found almost intact. Tutankhamen's treasure was eventually rehoused in the Cairo Museum. Parts of it made excursions to France, Japan and the U.S. Two weeks ago, the biggest collection of individual Tutankhamen objects -some 50 pieces-ever to leave Egypt went on display at the British Museum...
...most important new trend signaled by Documenta IV. Edward Kienholz's grotesque nude on a sewing machine inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...