J. Carter brown for over 3,300 years, the pharaoh tutankhamun has gazed serenely at eternity, confident in his ability to conquer death. Everlasting life was his by right of birth. He was pharaoh, king of egypt, the mightiest empire of the ancient world. He was a god. Nothing was beyond his means. When tutankhamun sat upon his throne, thousands of years of history and achievement had already preceded him. Surely a nation that could bring itself into being and create wonders like the Great Pyramids could overcome mans final enemydeath. And overcome death tutankhamun hasat least according to the ancient egyptian funerary beliefs, for the very act of speaking his name provides magic to infuse tutankhamun with everlasting life. Names were important to the egyptians. A name symbolized ones personality and even ones very existence. To remember the dead was to make them live again. And so tutankhamun must, for the whole world has known his name ever since that day in november of 1922, when ar
J. Carter brown for over 3,300 years, the pharaoh tutankhamun has gazed serenely at eternity, confident in his ability to conquer death. Everlasting life was his by right of birth. He was pharaoh, king of egypt, the mightiest empire of the ancient world. He was a god. Nothing was beyond his means. When tutankhamun sat upon his throne, thousands of years of history and achievement had already preceded him. Surely a nation that could bring itself into being and create wonders like the Great Pyramids could overcome mans final enemydeath. And overcome death tutankhamun hasat least according to the ancient egyptian funerary beliefs, for the very act of speaking his name provides magic to infuse tutankhamun with everlasting life. Names were important to the egyptians. A name symbolized ones personality and even ones very existence. To remember the dead was to make them live again. And so tutankhamun must, for the whole world has known his name ever since that day in november of 1922, when ar
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Archaeologists have unearthed part of the Roman water system in a villa that was literally frozen in time after the Vesuvius eruption almost 2,000 years ago.