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When Jesus died, so the Gospels say, they shut him up in a cave. He descended into hell. On the third day, his disciples found the stone to his tomb rolled away. He had risen, defeated death, stepped from the darkness into the light...
...clear echoes of his own turmoil, noting that the "tide of public opinion turned" against Jesus when he was still young. "They said he was an agitator," said King. "He practiced civil disobedience. He broke injunctions." Jesus was betrayed by friends, cursed, killed and buried penniless in a borrowed tomb--but now after 19 centuries "stands as the most influential figure that ever entered human history." For all the worldly gloss about a "lord of lords," King found nothing royal about Jesus: "He just went around serving...
...Here, the panel appears to provide the most clues to the purpose of the mural. Researchers suggest that the mural was intended to represent the Mayan king’s divine right to rule. Saturno and his team suspect that the king is buried in a recently-discovered tomb nearby. The detail and skill shown in the mural are of particular interest to scholars, who now have evidence that wall painting was a much older Mayan art than previously thought. Saturno’s research has been funded by National Geographic, and the details of the find will be described...
...retaining his dictatorial grip on Spain for another 30 years. Even when he died, he avoided the fate of his fellow despots. Hitler's body was likely incinerated outside his bunker; Mussolini's corpse swung from a gas-station awning in Milan; but Franco still lies in a grand tomb funded and carefully maintained by the country he subjugated. On Sunday, the 30th anniversary of his death, several thousand Franco supporters will make their annual journey to the Valley of the Fallen, some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There...
...Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick. What do good journalists do when they find themselves in the middle of the story of a lifetime? Dig till they drop and type like hell. Remnick covered thousands of miles for hundreds of interviews to explain who did what to whom when the Kremlin came tumbling down. The result is history still hot from the crucible...