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...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...
McNall began trading in artifacts, many of them stolen by tomb robbers in Turkey, Greece and Italy. To a Vanity Fair reporter last spring, he freely boasted of dealing in contraband (at 18, he said, he was smuggling gold coins) -- and if caught at it, quickly returning it. "What I don't need to have happen," he explained, "is my academic friends saying, 'You know, deep down morally these things are stolen.' And I do know that ... I tell all my people, 'If there's a whisper, give it back.' " McNall now prefers not even to whisper to the press...
...perhaps by salvaging equipment. Maritime experts and the ferry's owners agree that raising it would be technically difficult. And they acknowledge that it would be dangerous work for the divers to bring bodies to the surface. For the hundreds who perished inside it, the Estonia has become a tomb...