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...tomb site a professor and his assistant (Charlton Heston and Susannah York) are prizing open the evil princess's mummy case. Back in camp his wife (Jill Townsend) goes into labor-two months early. A mysteriously difficult birth ensues. No one needs a translation of the hieroglyphics in the burial place to know what is happening-the soul of the royal personage is reversing the usual journey, moving from tomb to womb...
...like being in a sweatshop." Daily temperatures of 100° to 120° F, says Down, made Sphinx "my most physically exhausting movie." Things did not improve when the cast moved to breezy Budapest. There, in a cavernous studio, Down portrayed an Egyptologist who finds the lost tomb of Seti I. To evoke the proper sepulchral ambience, 130 bats were set loose on the set. "It was horrible. They rained down on me," she shudders. "Even now, I go funny at the knees just thinking about those ghastly creatures...
...draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath of gold leaves and acorns hangs over a gold larnax, or chest, in which Philip II's bones might have lain. The tomb at Vergina in which these treasures were discovered was unearthed in 1977 by Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos. It may not actually be Philip's, but it is pleasant to think it is. In any case, Philip's head is exhibit No. 1 in the show. Even with...
...life for a long thereafter. Hamlet tells Horatio that Alexander's fame came to nothing: "To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he finds it stopping a bunghole?" Still, his fame has come this far. His tomb was on display for 700 years and he is not through...
...forth. Who will ever know? There is a sentence on the final wall of the exhibition: "The search continues . . ." It provides the exhibition's one hokey moment, and it is also misleading, suggesting as it does that a continuing search for Alexander will yield something. The tomb may be unearthed eventually, but not Alexander. If all that marble and gold do not reveal him, neither will his bones...