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...good story while it lasted. In February archaeologists announced the discovery of a new tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the first since Howard Carter unearthed King Tut's final resting place in 1922. Inside the tomb were seven coffins, and on the basis of several clues--such as pottery with inscriptions identical to some found with Tut--Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's antiquities council, speculated that Tut's mother Queen Kiya might be inside...
...researchers to send the skull fragments and the right hip, along with its embedded spear point, to a lab in Lincolnshire, Ill., for ultrahigh-resolution CT scanning. The process produced virtual slices just 0.39 mm (about 0.02 in.) thick - "much more detailed than the ones made of King Tut's mummy," says Owsley. The slices were then digitally recombined into 3-D computer images that were used to make exact copies out of plastic. The replica of the skull has already enabled scientists to clear up a popular misconception that dates back to the initial reports of the discovery...
...young snowboarders, mogulers and aerialists will bring the razzmatazz of extreme sports to these Games. New to the lineup is a breakneck race called SBX (snowboard cross) that pits four to six boarders racing side-by-side along a man-made course of bumps, turns and jumps. Purists might tut-tut, but the close-cutting action should attract a fresh breed of fans who prefer wild moves and wipeouts to precision execution. However you like your Games, it all starts to crystallize into a vivid storyline as the wind whips around the Sacra di San Michele, where our guide, Cerutti...
...There, doctors and other scientists, working with imaging experts from Silicon Graphics, have been unwrapping her--not physically, which would cause enormous damage, but virtually. Using more than 60,000 high-resolution X-ray images from scans that produce 35 times as much information as the scans of King Tut released earlier this year, the team has put together a three-dimensional portrait of what lies within her casing...
...city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo ... The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album ... For those who must wait outside the museum, 16 portable 'Tutlets' are at their disposal ... 'The civic and cultural leaders are ridiculing the Egyptian deity,' [one of the exhibition's organizers] complained. 'Why can't we do something with a little class...