PALO ALTO, CA and EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — Two thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes ... was discovered by Alexander H. Rhind, a 24-year-old Scottish ...

Antigone's uncle Creon claimed Thebes' throne in their wake ... Mack-the-Knife sheen. Director Alexander Burns adopts a presentational style, nodding at the play's classical roots, but taking on a Brechtian undertone throughout (Brecht also ...

that registered a 4.0 magnitude. The Alexander County Sheriff's office reported a deputy living in Thebes heard rumbling about 4 a.m., thinking it was thunder. Tremors were felt in nine states from the 3:58 a.m. quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.