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When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus. When Carter's team tried to remove the mummy, they found that it had become stuck to the innermost coffin. Unfortunately, their solution was to cut out the mummy, which damaged it extensively. The CT scans enabled scientists to distinguish that damage from injuries Tut suffered when he was alive...
Sources: National Geographic; Egypt Supreme Council of Antiquities; The Tomb of Tutankhamen, by Howard Carter; Guide to the Valley of the Kings, by Alberto Siliotti
...Howard Berkes, a National Public Radio correspondent and class of 1998 Nieman who had heard the rumor, sparked controversy on Sunday at a Nieman alumni reunion when he confronted Giles with what he had heard...
...represent the second rank of world directors. The names Michael Haneke and Hiner Saleem, Hou Hsaio-hsien and Wang Xiaoshuai, the Dardenne brothers and the Larrieu brothers, may not light up the marquee in your movie awareness. The prospect a new Lars von Trier (Manderlay, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover) may make you squirm...
...stood in front of the Frist Campus Center, so named after the Senator's family pledged $25 million to his alma mater. As word of the effort spread, hundreds of students joined in-despite looming exams-and a number of parallel protests started up at other schools, including Harvard, Howard, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale...