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...years one of the loveliest flowers of ancient Egyptian art bloomed unseen in the gloom of a Tell el-Amarna tomb. There, in 1912, German Archeologist Ludwig Borchardt unearthed the gracile head of Queen Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come"), and quietly shipped it to Germany. In vain the Egyptian Government demanded its return. Nefertete stayed in the Berlin Neues Museum, and her swanlike beauty (in cheap reproductions) became world renowned...
Archeologists have long supposed that the site lay somewhere near the modern town of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. But Professor Herman Junker, in a recent Berlin lecture, advanced a new theory: he had found an old tomb inscription placing Heliopolis near Helwan, an ancient town on the Nile south of Cairo. He advised Egyptologists to dig in a large necropolis (cemetery), well-known to archeologists, near Helwan...
When a report of Junker's lecture trickled through neutral countries to Cairo, archeologists began digging. Sure enough, they soon unearthed tomb writings definitely identifying the necropolis as Heliopolis' cemetery. Dr. Etienne Drioton, director of Egypt's Antiquities Service, last week reported that the diggers had already turned up valuable information about the city's Stone Age inhabitants. Digging continues...
Eleven years ago the Russians first conceived the idea of surmounting a soaring edifice of pillared concrete with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...
Lord Carnarvon's expedition to the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 so fascinated Van Anda that he immersed himself in Egyptology. When the first photographs of King Tut's tomb arrived in Manhattan, Times editors wondered where an expert could be found in a hurry to translate the hieroglyphics on the wall; Van Anda did the translating...