Little remains of the original Potala Palace of the seventh century, built as a place for meditation by King Songtsen Gampo on the occasion of his marriage to Princess Wencheng of the Tang Court. Standing atop the Red Hill in Lhasa, the current structure dates from the 17th century; it was rebuilt by the 5th Dalai Lama and became the Winter Palace of the Dalai Lamas from that time. The 13-story building of 1,000 rooms can be seen from many miles away. The Potala is divided into two sections--an outer section, the White Palace, and an inner section, the Red Palace, the latter containing

Archaeologists yesterday doscovered tombs of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years — proof that Egypt's sands still have secrets to open.Even though archaeologists have been exploring Egypt for more than 150 years, what is found for now consists only one third, of what can be found."The sands of Saqqara reveal lots of secrets," said Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, as he showed reporters a 4,000-year-old mud brick tomb that belonged to a scribe of divine records, Ka-Hay, and his wife.The tomb, along with the butler's 3,350-year-old

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