Word: carnelian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primeval marshes where, according to Egyptian belief, the world began and the dead person's metamorphosis took place, are evoked by a wall of papyrus, which in turn gives way to the dramatic climax of the show: the great funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have fought their way through the lines-ironically, ignoring the nearby Louvre's permanent display of 4,000 Egyptian objects, which attract no more than a few dozen foreign tourists...
UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. Gold amulets and toe stalls found on mummies fill the small museum, but the most beautiful Egyptian treasure is a tiny (15.6 in.) gold coffin inlaid with lapis lazuli and carnelian that once contained the entrails of King Tutankhamen. A snack bar serves gawalfa juice, lamb kabob and Egyptian coffee...
...While probing in a slightly lower part of the mound, Dr. Pritchard stumbled by accident upon his most spectacular find: a mud-walled tomb with the skeleton of a woman of high station, perhaps a local queen. She lay with rich grave goods still around her-500 beads of carnelian and 75 of gold, silver pins, a silver chain, four ivory boxes, an ivory spoon with a human head carved on it, and many objects of bronze and pottery. She must have died about 1200 B.C., not long after Joshua stormed the Promised Land...
Full-Dress Dig. Dr. Negahban's party made exploratory borings in a mound named Marlik aftera nearby olive grove. Out of the red earth came gold buttons, small bronze cows, red carnelian beads, and two cylindrical seals used to roll impressions on moist claydocuments. The University of Teheran granted Dr. Negahban funds for a full-dress dig, and the 400-ft.-long boat-shaped mound was systematically excavated...