title: Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime
author: Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
description: Kirkpatrick ( A Cast of Killers ) engagingly recounts how Peruvian archeologist Walter Alva out-maneuvered huaqueros (grave robbers), international smugglers and governmental interference to successfully excavate one of the richest deposits of pre-Columbian artifacts in South America. Alva, who publicized his discovery in National Geographic , mobilized a depleted local police force, recruited indigenous laborers, ingeniously neutralized community resistance, and raised sufficient funding to painstakingly sift through a Huaca Rajada burial site for evidence of Moche royalty in the coastal valleys of northern Peru, skillfully unfolds this stirring drama of one man's fight to preserve his country's cultural heritage. Photos not seen by PW. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Ali Pacha
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Alexandre Dumas, Pere
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### ALI PACHA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious
  
  
  enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western
  
  
  Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who
  
  
  made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed
  
  
  kingdoms, the ancient eastern part of the Continent; like mummies
  
  
  which preserve but the semblance of life, was gradually tumbling to
  
  
  pieces, and getting parcelled out amongst bold adventurers who
  
  
  skirmished over its ruins. Without mentioning local revolts which
  
  
  produced only short-lived struggles and trifling changes, of
  
  
  administration, such as that of Djezzar Pacha, who refused to pay
  
  
  tribute because he thought himself impregnable in his citadel of
  
  
  Saint-Jean-d'Acre, or that of Passevend-Oglou Pacha, who planted
  
  
  