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...team of excavators when he invaded in 1798, and a series of expeditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries uncovered one tomb after another. A total of 61 burial spots had been found by the time the British explorer Howard Carter opened the treasure-laden tomb of King Tutankhamun...
That something turned out to be the earliest intact shipwreck ever recovered, a fully laden cargo vessel that had gone to its silent, watery grave perhaps 3,400 years ago, about the time King Tutankhamun was on the throne in Egypt. The discovery, announced in Washington last week by the National Geographic Society, which helped sponsor Bass's expedition, is located near the town of Kas, less than 100 yards off the jagged, arid southern Turkish coastline and more than 145 ft. below the surface. The excavation began in earnest last summer...
...years since there have been bitter arguments about the meaning of Ebla, but one undisputed fact rises above the clamor: the Tell Mardikh find ranks with such 20th century archaeological sensations as the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt (1922), Ugarit (1929), Mari on the middle Euphrates (1930s) and the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...activity to produce? The "Tut Law," or curse of the mummy, by which works of art become invisible as the museum audience for them expands, will work against this show. That is all the more ironical since this is not an affair of little scholarly value, like the traveling Tutankhamun exhibit seen by more than 8 million Americans, but an immense contribution to Picasso studies, done at the highest level of curatorial skill...
...Once Tutankhamun returned from the tomb, it was inevitable that publishers would discover the Nile. Several have done so, simultaneously vulgarizing the past and present. But two new books offer a deep understanding of how people looked and thought a world ago. In Mummies Made in Egypt (Crowell; $8.95), Aliki unravels the secrets of ba, the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul, and ka, the invisible twin of the deceased. Both ba and ka wandered after death, and they could only return to a recognizable body-hence the art of preservation. Aliki's crisp narrative and delicate artwork never...