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...second day of the Con was spent weaving through the booths and unsuccessfully trying to see Angelina Jolie present scenes from the up-coming "Tomb Raider" sequel. Frankly, I didn't mind the non-comics aspect of the show. Anyone with an interest in pop-culture sub-genres, like myself, will find a blissful smile uplift their face in the presence of so much "junk." G.I. Joe dolls in action poses, Simpsons dioramas and full-scale sculptures of creatures from the Lord of Rings movies get museum-like attention. And why shouldn't they? Andy Warhol, who you can easily...
...please, spare us the equal-opportunity keening about Charlie's Angels and Tomb Raiders. The first series is a kung-fu pajama party; the giga-giggling Angels are girls, not adult women. Katharine Hepburn had more vim than the three of them put together. And Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft, for all her googol-24-36 figure, is emotionally not a woman at all. She's a rumbustious guy whose response to nearly any challenge is to open the artillery...
Purported physical evidence of the life of Jesus, a stone burial box thought to have held the remains of Jesus' brother James, has been declared a fake by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The panel of experts found inconsistencies in the patina and wording of the tomb's inscription, "James, the son of Joseph, the brother of Jesus," which they said placed the author in modern times. Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review and a proponent of the tomb's authenticity, says he's not convinced. Adds Harvard paleographer Frank Cross: "If this is a forgery, the forger...
...evidence that the pieces were stolen.) Li was allegedly a classic bag man, removing the items one at a time in a sack. When authorities raided his home in December, they found that it "looked like a museum inside," recalls one Chengde police official. Although corrupt museum officials and tomb-raiding peasants face periodic crackdowns?and occasionally even the death sentence?countless stolen relics still flow out of China each year. Other antiquities that have circulated on the black market include...
...Terracotta Figurine The U.S. last week returned to China six of these 2,000-year-old relics stolen from the tomb of a Western Han dynasty princess. They had been slated for auction in New York