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...have fought - and those who have died - for the country. Wreath-laying ceremonies take place at cemeteries across the land, including at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Though the commemoration officially began in Arlington as Armistice Day, with the burial of an anonymous World War I soldier at the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1921, the occasion didn't become a federal holiday in the U.S. until 1938. (In 1954 its name was changed to Veterans Day.) Accounts differ on when the tradition began in Britain and France, but most experts surmise that the first burial of unidentified soldiers...
...among four who had previously been interred in France. Once the caskets were exhumed, Sergeant Edward F. Younger, a decorated officer, walked around them several times and arbitrarily chose one of the four by placing a handful of white roses upon its top. The coffin lies in a tomb adorned with the phrase, "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." In subsequent wars - including World War II, Korea and Vietnam - a solitary unidentified soldier was selected to be honored with an Arlington burial. Other nations have also adopted the ceremony. In Canada, the Tomb...
Mimicking the discovery, the exhibition moves from within the tomb to inside the coffin. The panels of the coffin are intricately painted with images for the afterlife. In a presentation scene, Djehutynakt sits before a crowd of gifts, including jars, birds with interlocking heads, gazelle-like creatures, and even an eviscerated ox. The painting is sophisticated—the governors’ legs are colored in two different shades of red to create foreground and background—and the detail is impressive...
...their rush to loot the tomb, robbers severed the head from its body, and it is unknown today whether the head belonged to the governor or to his wife. But here again, the exhibition highlights archaeological advancement in relation to the object itself. A video explains how DNA testing is currently answering this century-old question...
...focus on archaeological process over product, and artifact over art, distinguishes “The Secrets of Tomb 10a” from many Egyptian exhibitions, where typically a hodgepodge of statues and jewelry leave the viewer awestruck, but distanced from the culture itself. Nothing from Tomb 10a is monumental; no one artwork stands out as particularly impressive. Tomb robbers, a panel informs early on, got to the grave before the archaeologists did, seizing everything perceived to have value: jewelry, ornaments, and large statues. But an inspection of what remains brings the viewer closer to the past and those who unearthed...