The phrase "ancient excavations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to archaeological digs or sites that date back to ancient times.
Example: "The archaeologists uncovered several ancient excavations that revealed artifacts from a long-lost civilization."
Alternatives: "historical digs" or "archaeological sites".
It is possible to protect the ancient excavations from water by diverting it, the Parizeks say, so finding undiscovered tombs is critical to their preservation.
The location of the graves, the dating and the type of substrates collected are presented in Additional file 5. Finally, we also analyzed seven samples; six from protohistoric times and one from the 15th century, coming from ancient excavations in Yakutia and deposited in museums and other institutions 3-15 years ago.
In this article we compared 65 individuals from Central Yakutia: 58 frozen bodies from the 15th to the late 18th century which were excavated over three years, and seven bodies of a later period from more ancient excavations, with 166 individuals from a well-defined contemporary population.
Also within the city are the rock-cut caves of Khandagiri and Udayagiri, a zoological and botanical park, and the ancient excavation site of Sisupalgarh.
A skilled archaeologist can identify the ancient excavation and the fill it contains, which will often include deliberately buried or discarded artefacts and other remains.
The modified application techniques and composition of CaLoSil nanosols have been tested and demonstrated successfully on two objects in Germany, Saxony State, and an ancient Roman excavation site in Italy.
I have previous experience working with ancient materials digging in an archaeological excavation and restoring ceramics in a conservation lab.
The museum features ancient artifacts from area excavations, including many from Etruscan settlements that were first discovered over a century ago.
Hamilton also conducted important excavations of ancient archaeological sites near Rome and sold many of the discovered artifacts and art objects to British collectors.
By the 1770s, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were being attracted to all things Egyptian, probably because of the interest raised in the late 1740s by the discovery of Egyptian antiquities during excavations of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Pioneered with excavations of ancient shipwrecks along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, maritime archeology now encompasses a full global spectrum to include shipwrecks of all ages, submerged paleoshorelines, harbors and coastal areas, and maritime cultural landscapes that examine human use of marine locales on broad geographic and temporal scales.
