When Archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the lost tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1923, he was so overcome with excitement, and in such a hurry to get all those “wonderful things” he saw out of the tomb—and of these the golden sarcophagus of the Pharaoh itself was certainly not least,… Continue reading JAWS Model On Its Way Home
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From the Grave
The crescent moon overhead shown brightly above the large stone sepulcher, illuminating its cold cinder walls. Inside the century old vault, lay rest a massive sarcophagus. The room itself lay bare, aside from a few scattered scraps of age old debris. The only thing of any interest was the sarcophagus itself. The sides were engraved… Continue reading From the Grave