Word: sarcophagus
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When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus. When Carter's team tried to remove the mummy, they found that it had become stuck to the innermost coffin. Unfortunately, their solution was to cut out the mummy, which damaged it extensively. The CT scans enabled scientists to distinguish that damage from injuries Tut suffered when he was alive...
...ANNOUNCED. RESULTS of a computer tomographic (C.T.) scan of the remains of Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun, which appear to rule out foul play in his early death; in Cairo. The C.T. scan, for which Tut's body was removed from its sarcophagus for the first time since its discovery in 1922, revealed no sign of head wounds, ending speculation that a blow to the head had ended the 19-year-old King's brief reign circa 1352 B.C. "We don't know how the King died, but we are sure it was not murder," said Egyptian antiquities expert Zahi Hawass...
...animals. Luke did not include any. The ox and ass first appeared much later, in artistic renderings like a 4th century Roman sarcophagus that shows them peeking over the side of Jesus' crib. Cute as it was, the image served an interreligious enmity, employing for Christian purposes God's annoyed statement in the Old Testament Book of Isaiah that "the ox knows its owner, and the donkey knows its master's crib, but Israel has not known me." By contrast, the camels that pop up in many Nativities are relatively innocent. A passage from the medieval compendium of saints' lives...
...center of the land given to the University by Shattuck lies a huge sarcophagus-shaped tomb engraved with now-faded words of praise for the first law professor at Harvard, who was also the first person to be interred at Harvard Hill. According to Corporation records, Royall Professor of Law John Hooker Ashmun, Class of 1818, was buried...
...members of the national soccer team who performed below his expectations. Last weekend TIME found tangible evidence of that torture. In the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad, hidden in a pile of leaves, was that must-have of every medieval dungeon, an iron maiden. The sarcophagus-shaped device, with spikes to pierce any unfortunate placed inside, was clearly worn from use. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. It was brought to TIME's attention by looters: they had stripped the site of anything of value...