Eager to finish the new building, the Egyptian government allowed only hasty excavation of part of the site.
It isn't that he believes that a poem can mean anything, or means nothing, or that language is irreducibly ambiguous, or that only an excavation of the author's unconscious can provide the key, or that the author's intention is irrelevant, or anything like that.
This stripping will happen at each point of the surface, and, supposing only vertical excavation is possible, eventually a molecularly rough surface will be obtained, in which only silicon molecules are exposed, thus preventing any further reaction.
The investigators did observe that in the case of the fluoride varnish only, caries excavation reduced the proportion of teeth that were blackened, and thus had an esthetic benefit.
Only new excavations yielding closely dated evidence in well documented contexts may one day shed light on the mysterious birth of ancient Egypt.
Archaeologists have worked sporadically here for several years but began concentrated excavation only last winter, after it became clear that the site was about to be lost.
But that excavation produced only 24 of the project's 92 acres; the rest came from sand excavated from the lower New York Harbor.
As of May 2010, only a total excavation length of 6.8 km was completed in 16 months.
Positive and negative, myth and reality, are so tightly intertwined that only deep historical excavation can distinguish them.
Considering that the excavation only uncovered a small area of the cemetery, there may be as many as 100 graves.
