Word: tombful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plunderers seeking gold were the first to find the shining key that would unlock a door to the past. In 1987 a local looter stumbled upon a royal tomb deep inside an adobe-brick pyramid near the village of Sipan in the Lambayeque River valley of Peru's northern coastal plain. The find was pillaged, and many artifacts from it soon began showing up on the international market for stolen art. Fortunately, three other tombs that have since been discovered in the pyramid were protected and excavated under the eye of an expert. As a result, a team of workers...
...frenzy that followed the original looting of the tombs seven years ago seemed like footage from an Indiana Jones movie. International collectors and dealers in antiquities joined huaqueros, the Peruvian term for grave robbers, in a rush for Sipan gold. During raids, police were able to confiscate some stolen material, and one huaquero was killed. Then, with the digging site secured and under guard, Alva and a team of archaeologists and workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing...
...long-neglected, scuzzy tomb to get $400,000 cleanup...
...conducter! The preceding is a perfect example of the level of humor in currency among the musical-going crowd. Here's another: as a slave in Egypt--would that he really were--Donny Osmond wears a toga-esque outfit, which Pharoah Elvis refers to as "Fruit of the Tomb...
...will assign blame. One possible victim is Lieut. General Ehud Barak, the military chief of staff who has been widely touted as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's preferred successor. Says a high-ranking army officer: "Barak used to be considered a wunderkind. The blunders made in the Tomb have tarnished his reputation...