Word: tombs
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...events match the drama and romance of a major archaeological discovery. It's no wonder, then, that the world was buzzing last week when a team of Greek archaeologists working in Egypt said they had found the tomb of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King who died...
...name and dates of birth and death will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence. DRESDEN. In 1709 Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and elector of Saxony, built the ornate Taschenbergpalais as a residence for his favorite mistress. The Baroque palace, later occupied by the Wettin dynasty, was virtually destroyed...
...purported discovery of Alexander the Great's tomb in Egypt has blown into a full-fledged archaeologocal controversy just a day after Greek excavators announced the find. "We are sure," Liana Souvaltzi, head of the Greek team, said today, indicating three limestone tablets describing how the ancient world's greatest conquerer came to rest at the tomb, in the western Oasis of Siwa. Her team also found carved oak leaves worn in the crowns of Macedonian kings and an engraved eight-pointed star -- Alexander's own symbol. But several Egyptian and U.S. experts tell TIME the tomb could be anything...
...lockout was the immediate result of a dispute between the Park Service and the King family over a new visitor center being built on the Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...
...weave of a coarse djellaba conveyed in thin licks of wash; the violent white light on a wall; a chaotic still life of saddles, blankets and flintlocks piled in the corner of a guardhouse behind a pair of sleeping soldiers, whose robes give them the monumental air of tomb sculptures. The drawings, individually but even more so as a series, express an immense excitement about the world's variety. They underwrote the authenticity of his later paintings, reinforcing their fictions...