Word: tutankhamun
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...luck that the tomb of Tutankhamun, pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 B.C., escaped the predations of grave robbers over the millenniums. Largely luck too that British Archaeologist Howard Carter found the royal tomb in 1922 after 15 years of fruitless searching through the sere Valley of the Kings. Perhaps the timing was also lucky when J. Carter Brown, director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, began negotiating with Egyptian authorities in 1974 for a U.S. showing of the tomb's contents: a wave of pro-American feeling was just sweeping Cairo. In any case, millions...
Knowing Alexander's almost negroid penchant for big funerals* two expeditions hope that without too much difficulty they will find traces of his tomb. Britisher Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, proposes to start soon for Alexandria. Says he: "According to Plutarch exact position of Alexander's tomb was unknown. However, it may possibly be found in one of the Royal cemeteries, but I anticipate a long, difficult and expensive search...
Discovery of Alexander's bones would be an outstanding feat of modern archeology, would make the discovery of Tutankhamun appear as a child's beach digging. If the body of Alexander is found beneath the Mosque it will not go to any foreign museum but will remain where it has been for tens of centuries. Thus reads Professor Breccia's contract...
...many's decision to return Queen Nefertiti to her native land, to accept several other rarities in exchange. Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Ikhnaton, whom she espoused in the 14th Century B. C. She bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated Ammon. deity of wealth and power, consecrated himself solely to Aton...