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Egyptian archaeologists uncovered the remains of a hidden pyramid believed to house the tomb of the obscure Pharaoh Menkauhor, who briefly ruled more than 4,000 years ago. Known as the Headless Pyramid because of its missing top, the structure was discovered by a German archaeologist in the 19th century but later obscured by the desert sand. Authorities hope further digs at the site will yield more discoveries...
...particularly those for whom privacy is in short supply. No big shock to readers of Manil Suri's new novel The Age of Shiva, then, to find hormonal Delhiites Meera Sawhney, 17, and hunky songster Dev Arora, not much older, on the floor of a Sufi mystic's decaying tomb in flagrante delicto. The only surprise comes for the two paramours, whose rendezvous has been espied by a nearby stationmaster's son. Word quickly reaches both their homes, which shudder with the news. "You may not realize this now," Meera's father scolds her, "but you've just ruined your...
...squads of anxious riot police manned street corners as Chelsea and United fans - easily distinguished by their, respectively, blue and red-and-white regalia - strolled the streets, drinking beer and riding the famous Moscow subway. In Red Square, a football pitch had been set up right by Lenin's tomb, and Russian and British fans played pickup games under a bizarre combination of Bolshevik stars and Imperial eagles. The combination of official goodwill and vigilance appears to have been successful - just a single brawl among the Russian and British fans was reported throughout...
...crunch and the dull moan of church organs. The Bad Seeds chant the chorus like oarsmen on a Viking ship: “Dig yourself / Laz’rus, dig yourself / Back in that hole.” In sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter with fame in modern America ends “back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave.” It’s a fitting...
...point he gently exhorts the reader to place a hand on a life-size photo reproduction of a handprint left by its maker on a ceramic brick, taken from an unearthed Han tomb wall. It's a hauntingly visceral exercise, like shaking hands with a dead man, but precisely the type of immanent encounter with a past typically coffined in museum display cases that Barbieri-Low hopes to inspire. "Understanding these lives," he says, "will allow us to humanize the material remains of the past...