- NEW YORK (AP) -- Geraldo Rivera had Al Capone's vault. Now Arthur Kent
has an Egyptian tomb.
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- Fox announced Tuesday that it will broadcast
a two-hour special next year where Kent, the former NBC "Scud Stud"
now working as an independent journalist, will unseal the newly discovered
tomb on live television.
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- The network and a production firm, Radio
With Pictures, have made arrangements with the Egyptian government to
broadcast the scientific excavation. Terms were not disclosed.
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- Kent will join archeologists March 2
in opening the pyramid of Queen Khamerernebty II, an Egyptian royal who
reigned 4,600 years ago. They'll also unseal a tomb near the burial place
of a former Egyptian high priest.
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- The special sounds familiar to one of
Rivera's low points, the 1986 opening of a vault linked to mobster Capone
in a Chicago hotel. After a big buildup in a live special, the vault
was empty except for a sign and a few bottles.
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- With the approaching millennium, Fox
thinks interest in history is rising. And it says this has been a serious
archeological project, monitored closely by the Egyptian government.
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- Fox being Fox -- the network of "When
Good Pets Go Bad" -- a little drama doesn't hurt, though.
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- "Had the ancient Egyptians from
2,700 BC evolved into sophisticated architects, artists, astronomers and
scientists?" the network asks in a breathless news release. "Or
did they receive some help? And if so, from whom? Alien visitors from
another world? Descendants of the lost civilization of Atlantis?"
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- The answers, Fox says, "have been
silently entombed in the timeless sands of the Sahara Desert."
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