Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archeologists have long supposed that the site lay somewhere near the modern town of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. But Professor Herman Junker, in a recent Berlin lecture, advanced a new theory: he had found an old tomb inscription placing Heliopolis near Helwan, an ancient town on the Nile south of Cairo. He advised Egyptologists to dig in a large necropolis (cemetery), well-known to archeologists, near Helwan...
Eleven years ago the Russians first conceived the idea of surmounting a soaring edifice of pillared concrete with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...
Next day the old King graciously invited the young King to pray in the Mosque of Medina, before the tomb of the Prophet himself...
...Teacher) Govind Singh and his two martyr sons, by breaking ground for a shrine for them. The story goes that Guru's sons were captured by the Moslems (circa 1700) and held as hostages until their father should renounce his faith. When he refused, the Moslems built a tomb over the two boys, 7 and 9, and buried them alive...
Lord Carnarvon's expedition to the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 so fascinated Van Anda that he immersed himself in Egyptology. When the first photographs of King Tut's tomb arrived in Manhattan, Times editors wondered where an expert could be found in a hurry to translate the hieroglyphics on the wall; Van Anda did the translating...