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...been digging for 12 years, 4 months a year, 18 hours a day. Since 1992, Georgi Kitov and his team have been searching through Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings, a 100-km, heavily forested region in the center of the country. The valley is dotted with ancient burial mounds erected by the Thracians, whose legacy as a pillar of ancient Europe lives on in texts and stories, but whose civilization remains a mystery. Kitov is slowly exploring the necropolis - and making some of the country's most incredible discoveries - in the hopes of adding to historians' limited knowledge...
This column, now in the hearse on the way to its burial, has been lucky...
Some objects are never meant to be found. And some should be featured prominently. Alas, these found objects deserved a more fitting destiny—either a proper burial in the adjacent trash can or a visible pedestal, not the ignominy of rain-soaked silence...
Some objects are never meant to be found. And some should be featured prominently. Alas, these found objects deserved a more fitting destiny—either a proper burial in the adjacent trash can or a visible pedestal, not the ignominy of rain-soaked silence...
...found dead on July 18 in the Cannes apartment where he lived with his Afghan-born wife and three-year-old daughter. French authorities, hoping to ascertain what killed him, did not release the body for three weeks. The delay was attributed partly to the fact that since the burial would be in Pakistan, there would be no further opportunity to conduct forensic tests. Inevitably, Bhutto's sudden and unexplained death spawned rumors of political intrigue, including the possibility that he had been murdered...