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Frederick Catherwood Biography
Frederick CatherwoodEnglish artist and explorerBorn: 1799 Illustrator Frederick Catherwood explored and documented Mayan ruins with American travel writer John Lloyd Stephens. Although both…The Devil's Dictionary: Tomb
by Ambrose Bierce TIGHTSTOPETOMB -n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no…T. Geoffrey Bibby 2001 Deaths
T. Geoffrey BibbyAge: 83 British archaeologist who, with Peter Vilhelm Glob, unearthed the 4,000-year-old kingdom of Dilmun in Bahrain. In Sumeria mythology, Dilmun was a secret island of…Linda Braidwood, 93, and Robert Braidwood 2003 Deaths
Linda Braidwood, 93, and Robert BraidwoodAge: 95 husband-and-wife archaeologist team that in 1947 discovered the earliest-known village, which dated to 6800 B.C., near the Iran-Iraq border.…King Tut
The 1922 discovery of the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamen made "King Tut" an instant celebrity and placed him among the most famous of Egypt's ancient rulers. Tut's tomb was broken into by English…Jericho, city, West Bank
(Encyclopedia) JerichoJerichojĕrˈĭkō [key] [Heb.,=fragrant, or city of the moon god], Arab. Ariha, town (2003 est. pop. 19,000), West Bank, in the Jordan valley N of the Dead Sea; nearby is the site…The Body
Director/Writer:Jonas McCordPG-13; 100 minutesRelease:4/01Cast:Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, Derek Jacobi Being generous, one could say that The Body tries to stick a limb in each genre…Major Pre-Columbian Culture Groups in the United States
Archaeological studies of pre-Columbian America have uncovered societies dating back over ten thousand years, roughly contemporaneous with the rise of civilization elsewhere in the world. These are…Mena Suvari Biography
Mena SuvariactressBorn: 2/9/1979Birthplace: Newport, Rhode Island This blue-eyed beauty ignited Kevin Spacey's imagination in the 1999 Oscar-wining American Beauty. The daughter of an Estonian…Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones first appeared in the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark and went on to become an enduring hero of movies, TV and video games. As played by Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones was an intrepid…Trending
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