Word: tombs
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...discovered. Then, three years ago, the eminent archaeologist, who also serves as Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments, got wind of a new, unsuspected burial site at the Bahariya Oasis, some 230 miles southwest of Cairo. When he arrived, recalls Hawass, "one of the tomb ceilings had fallen in and the sun shone through it. I went in and looked at the mummies in the rays of the sun. All I could see was gold...
Astonished by that first glimpse, Hawass returned last spring to lead what he calls the largest expedition ever undertaken in Egypt--and deservedly so. The richness of the find and the tombs' unprecedented state of preservation have astounded archaeologists, some of whom have compared it to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922. Even Tut's burial chamber had been partly looted, however. These tombs appear to have remained undisturbed since they were sealed some 2,000 years ago--more than 1,300 years after Tut, at a time when Egypt and much of the Middle East...
...surprising, given their dating, that the mummies and their accoutrements have both Egyptian and Roman characteristics: the hairstyles on the anthropoid coffins are Roman, but the style of decoration is Egyptian. The richness of the tomb decorations, Hawass notes, indicates that the inhabitants of Bahariya were prosperous. Indeed, the city flourished on its renowned wine, made from dates and grapes, which it exported throughout the Nile Valley...
...some 1,200 pounds of dynamite packed into the structure?s thick walls. But when the dust settled, the mausoleum had simply tilted a little - to the left - drawing ironic cheers from the crowd. Titters turned to guffaws as a second attempt, a few hours later, left Dimitrov?s tomb unmoved...
LOST & FOUND, PART I Astronaut Gus Grissom's space capsule, which sank in 1961, wasn't the only piece of history retrieved last week. In Charleston, S.C., archaeologists found remains of sailors who served on the H.L. Hunley, an 1863 Confederate submarine, while British archaeologists say they located the tomb of 9th century King Alfred, under a parking lot. And in Florence, Italy, librarians found an envelope with some of Dante's ashes, which, in a divine comedy of errors, had been lost for 70 years...