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Lord Carnarvon, whose grandfather was the patron of the expedition that discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, thought he had taken a complete inventory of belongings in his family's Highclere Castle last July. Then a 75-year-old family butler helping him interjected, "Except for the Egyptian stuff, my lord." Thereupon he began revealing more than 300 ancient objects that had been hidden in secret cupboards and unused rooms of the castle for more than 70 years. Among the trove was a 3,200-year-old carved wooden face...
...Plazas of Dignity. It is a serene place, which should come as no surprise, since all the residents are dead. The plazas are part of Manila Memorial Park, a cemetery for the privileged. While President Corazon Aquino's late husband Benigno, assassinated in 1983, rests in a simple tomb, other graves are grandiose: white sepulchers within marble pavilions, furnished with altars and windowed with stained glass. Some even provide bathrooms and beds for mourners...
...details, as with the fragments of two angels from a demolished late 13th century tomb in Sawley in Derbyshire -- faces and drapery so refined in their carving, and yet so plain and direct that they bear comparison with the sculpture made for the west door of Notre Dame a century before -- one sees the immensity of the loss. One can also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly...
...dramatic find was a triumph of space-age technology and archaeological investigation. The existence of the sister ship had been suspected since 1954, when the first vessel was discovered near the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Cheops, or Khufu. Work at the new site began two weeks ago. The trick was to probe the chamber without disturbing the interior -- including the 4,600-year-old air that might reveal secrets of the ancient atmosphere...
...after she entered its precincts, tanks and heavy artillery sealed off the sprawling headquarters of the Philippine army. Only three days earlier, military rebels had come close to toppling the President. Now, on National Heroes' Day, she was determined to talk tough. Speaking to a television audience from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the fort's Graveyard of Heroes, she excoriated the mutineers as "traitors and murderers." She declared that troops loyal to her had taught the rebels "their most bitter lesson. And we shall do it again if they want...