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Whose grave was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1922?

grave

[grayv] / greɪv /




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Rush also confessed to providing secrets to a foreign government, which could have caused "grave damage" to national security.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

In a statement, Doha said it was "a grave assault on the sanctity of Islamic holy sites", a violation of Saudi sovereignty and international law.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The video begins with Johnson at a grave site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

“That...That was a sheyd, wasn’t it?” stammered Daniel, his gaze darting between the shadows where he disappeared and the pair of socks in the grave.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said on Friday she was "sickened" by the case, adding: "The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all."

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

“It’s far graver. Far, far graver now than it was.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Before I was ever a graver myself, one of my now-comrades in Texas wrote a memorial to a man on Find a Grave.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

It is the graver thing I must seek, the dire constant, which I thought at first was simply John Kwang.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

This showdown potentially marks the gravest crisis in the court's 24-year history.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Nepal's rapper-turned-prime minister swept to power six months ago promising reform, but his young government now faces its gravest test after a glacial collapse unleashed catastrophe, analysts say.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

But many questions remain surrounding the events that posed one of the gravest challenges to the regime of General Abdourahamane Tiani, who himself came to power in a July 2023 coup.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

At first, it was marketed as a narrow backstop to prosecute the gravest crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The gravest issues seem to have occurred among the partisans, the guerrilla resistance fighters on the German-occupied side of the front lines.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017

Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.

From Time Magazine Archive

She said to her ladies that when she should be dead, they should find ‘Calais’ graved upon her heart.”

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

Ripe were the maiden's years; her stature showed Womanly beauty, and her clear, calm eye Was bright with venturous spirit, yet her face Was passionless, like those by sculptor graved For niches in a temple.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard

Rather to him, the artist, whose fine soul Has from the block moulded this godlike form, And graved it there.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The difference here is that Jackson’s intended audience—which, again, includes the vast majority of Americans who do not keep a graven image of Antonin Scalia in their homes—does not take assertions like this seriously anymore.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2024

Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.

From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019

Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017

Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

This graving free-for-all has caused some controversy over the years.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

The work of graving will never be finished.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

It’s what sucked me into graving, despite my startling first encounter with Find a Grave.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

"A true letter," she wrote to Clive Bell in 1907, "should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving in the mind."

From Time Magazine Archive

Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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