Tombs
TOMBS. In many European languages, to speak of "the tomb" is synecdochically to speak of death. In other places this is not true, since mortuary rites do not involve anything resem...
Read more
A white marble sarcophagus believed to be the final resting place of St. Paul has been unearthed from beneath the altar of Rome's second-largest basilica after centuries hidden from view, but those...
Read more
Storyline: The last time Lara Croft ran through our cribs, we weren’t too happy about it. Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness was a major disappointment due to the out-of-whack controls. There was...
Read more
Under a baking sun, pieces of limestone carved with borders of rosettes and geometrical designs lay in three excavated pits Tuesday _ a desert site Israeli archaeologists say is the tomb of King He...
Read more
A scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular but widely criticized documentary that claims to have located the tomb of Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used t...
Read more
The full memo comes after the jump.
May 2, 2006
Colleagues,
Sometimes a great notion just needs someone to give it a push to make it a reality someone with the enthusiasm and energy of ...
Read more
It used to be so easy for the "tombaroli," Italy's tomb raiders.Pietro Casasanta had no Indiana Jones-type escapes from angry natives or booby-trapped temples. He worked undisturbed in daylight wit...
Read more