Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery
in Virginia during an Armistice Day ceremony presided over
by President Warren G. Harding.

Two days before, an unknown American soldier, who had
fallen somewhere on a World War I battlefield, arrived at
the nation’s capital from a military cemetery in France.

As the soldier was lowered to his final resting place, a two-
inch layer of soil brought from France was placed below his
coffin so that he might rest forever atop the earth on which
he died.

(FOX NEWS) – Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient
Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including
one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator.

The discovery was announced by the Archaeology, Fine Arts
and Landscape (ABAP) Superintendence for the Metropolitan
Area of Naples on March 21.

In a statement translated from Italian to English, officials said
that the dig took place in Liternum, an ancient town near the
city of Giugliano in Campania.

On February 16, 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist
Howard Carter (center above) entered the sealed burial chamber
of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.

In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard
Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter
King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than 3,000 years.

Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb, Archaeologists Pose at
Tomb Entrance.

This is a colorized version of one of only two images
showing Howard Carter (on the left) and Lord
Carnarvon together in Tutankhamun’s tomb.

After 3,300 years, King Tut’s coffin leaves his tomb for the
first time.

Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in
Virginia during an Armistice Day ceremony presided over by
President Warren G. Harding (below).

Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)