Word: tutankhamen
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...mummy's head was sheathed in a mask of pure gold. In the case were gold chest ornaments, necklaces, 21 bracelets inscribed with family records, six beautifully carved scarabs strung on a gold wire, gold finger and toe cases, like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut's tomb...
...gallery after European gallery did something about hiding its treasures and museum pieces (TIME, Sept. 4), Egypt's National Museum reburied old King Tutankhamen and London's famed Tate let it be known that up to August 31 more than 60% of its 2,600 pictures and 400 pieces of sculpture had been removed to three large country houses, locations unannounced. Already moved were 140 canvases of the late great pre-Impressionist Joseph Mallord William Turner. On the floor near the ladies' lavatory, still waiting their turn for evacuation, were the sculptures of very-much alive Jacob...
...Professor Montet's mummy turns out to be the Biblical Shishak, † the find will be of more importance historically than the late Howard Carter's highly publicized discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922-since Tutankhamen was a footling little king who made no great impact on the affairs of his time...
Died. Howard Carter, 66, famed British Egyptologist, leader of the expedition which discovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of King TutankhAmen; of pneumonia; in London...
...finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children is one at which we may shudder! We speak as if our civilization was securely based, but there have been other civilizations than ours. Tutankhamen was forgotten until he was dug up. It is very possible that the things protecting our civilization are more slender than they are sometimes thought...