Word: tutankhamen
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...made by Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein, head of the Iraqi team at Nimrud, has turned out to be, by all accounts, one of the most important in modern times. John Curtis, an archaeologist from the British Museum, describes the treasure of Nimrud as the most significant archaeological discovery since King Tutankhamen's tomb was uncovered in Egypt...
Their contribution to later Andean civilizations, however, is believed to have been substantial, perhaps even comparable to the influence of the Egyptians on Mediterranean cultures. Moche experts ranked the Peruvian find with the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. Said Anthropologist Christopher B. Donnan of the University of California, Los Angeles: "This is the richest tomb ever excavated in the Western Hemisphere...
Lord Carnarvon, whose grandfather was the patron of the expedition that discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, thought he had taken a complete inventory of belongings in his family's Highclere Castle last July. Then a 75-year-old family butler helping him interjected, "Except for the Egyptian stuff, my lord." Thereupon he began revealing more than 300 ancient objects that had been hidden in secret cupboards and unused rooms of the castle for more than 70 years. Among the trove was a 3,200-year-old carved wooden face...
This monumental survey deserves to be published to the strains of the triumphal march from Aida. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michalowski (Abrams; 600 pages; $125) embraces some 5,000 years and 30-odd dynasties. Cheops, Tutankhamen, eleven Ramseses, a dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...
They are the artifacts of extravagance, as flawlessly preserved as those in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Five cases of wine with corks seemingly intact. Delicate china plates, wash basins and chamber pots, pristine and unchipped. Plump and elegant luggage that could have been packed yesterday. Seventy-three years after the "unsinkable" Titanic plowed into an iceberg and slowly slipped beneath the waves, the luxury liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship...