Word: trove
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King Tut was an exception to the rule. He did take it with him. All of it. When the tomb was unsealed in 1922 after about 3,000 years, it disgorged a funerary trove unrivaled in history or the imagination: golden chairs and chests, pearly alabaster statuary and polychromatic bursts of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, jasper and obsidian jewelry: some of the most beautiful body ornaments ever designed. And, of course, there was also the famous quartzite sarcophagus with its nesting of golden inner coffins that protected the mummified remains of the frail king who died about 1325 B.C., before...
...trove of early Irish art comes...
...loans, Beltrante learned that Johnson held securities worth about $100,000. Through a broker friend, Beltrante got the name of Johnson's broker, who confirmed that Johnson had a secret Swiss account. Finally, through Italian sources, Beltrante learned his Swiss account number and the size of his trove: $2 million...
Kaplan says his trove includes evidence of pre-1948 Communist conspiracies, plus 30 years of secret documentation from the archives of the Czechoslovak Politburo, the party central committee, the state planning commission, the trade unions and the secret police. Kaplan also had access to memorandums detailing Prague party leaders' discussions with Joseph Stalin and the Czechoslovak party's instructions from Moscow, notably in connection with the celebrated 1952 show trial of Party Chief Rudolf Slansky and other high-level officials. Among the items in Kaplan's cache, according to Kaplan...
...came one of the grandest scams of all. In 1910, Backhouse and J.O.P. Bland, a London Times China watcher, published China under the Empress Dowager. The memoir was based on the diary of Ching-shan, a fin de siècle Manchu courtier. Backhouse claimed to have found this trove of gossip and intelligence in its author's house during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The diary became the jewel of the Oxford collection; scholars may have debated its authenticity, but hardly a soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing for the first...