Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention as the Emperor walked slowly up the great steps of the Pantheon. He was going to visit the grave of the man that had made him possible. the Guard stood by eagerly waiting for the great epitaph which the Emperor would pronounce as he stood before the tomb of Rousseau. Marshalls leaned forward on their scabbards, courtiers strained unintelligent ears to catch a phrase they might repeat. All waited a trifle obviously. Napoleon in his favourite green stared down at the stone and murmured half to himself, "The world would be a better place if neither...
...capital to the right shows that dramatic scene in which the three Marys arrive at the tomb of Christ to find him gone. The angel is seen pointing into the tomb to further emphasize the fact of Christ's resurrection. On the left face of the capital, the figure of a sleeping guard is carved, while on the right the third Mary leans forward the better to see into the sepulchre...
Other bone mementos in the tomb of the Cloud warriors were "carved with a technique not surpassed by fine Chinese work on ivory," the carvings depicting events of history and details of ritual...
Best find in the tomb was a gold mask, four inches high, representing terrific Xipetotec,* the Cloud People's god of vegetation, gold, silver and grief. For Xipetotec's pleasure one of his priests would dance in a skin freshly flayed from a dazzling, dazzled woman...
...anything of like value had ever been discovered in the Americas, the digger was no honorable scientist. The gold alone in this Mixtec tomb was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Museums and private collections would pay almost any amount for the trinkets. This was treasure too precious for Professor Caso to keep in his home down in Oaxaco. Last week he secretly carried them to the vaults of the local branch of the Bank of Mexico. Then he dared make his report...