Heirs to ancient air: scientists hope to study the delicate contents of a 4,600-year-old chamber without ever disturbing what rests inside. (Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt)

From: Science News | Date: September 12, 1987| Author: Monastersky, Richard | Copyright information

Heirs to Ancient Air

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was not known for his light touch. He etched a space for himself in the annals of archaeology by being one of the first Westerners to begin excavating and collecting artifacts in Egypt. But he was more a heavy-handed plunderer than a scholar, and the scars of his work still mar the tombs of several pharoahs.

From such inauspicious beginnings, archaeology has evolved over the last century and a half into a rigorous...

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