Sentence examples for antiquities service from inspiring English sources

Remarks Egyptian antiquities service; precursor to Supreme Council of Antiquities.

The antiquities service now works the great structures in shifts, closing one each year for rest and recuperation.

At the Winter Palace hotel, Egyptologists mixed with English aristocrats and American tycoons lobbying for a concession from the antiquities service to open up an ancient tomb.

During most of the twentieth century the antiquities service was active and well-funded; Iraq's ancient past was seen as a source of national pride.

He joined the nation's antiquities service as an inspector in 1969, about two years after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Greek and Roman archaeology from Alexandria University.

The Iraqi antiquities service was once one of the best in the Middle East with a proud tradition going back to Hormuzd Rassam, who directed excavations at Nineveh and Nimrud, and at many other sites in the late 1800s.

The state has arbitrated insolvency since antiquity.

In 1895 E. A. Wallis Budge, on behalf of the British Museum, procured inscribed coffins and funerary furniture from the 12th Dynasty tombs at Al-Barshah by working with the Egyptian Service of Antiquities.

Until 1928, the conservation of the Lebanese National Museum was put in the hands of Charles Virolleaud, the director of the service of antiquities and Philippe de Tarazzi, the Lebanese conservator of the National Library.

"Robert Drennan has done the field a great service". Larry R. Kimball, American Antiquity, Vol 62 (1997).

In 1628 a chapel was built "upon a little toft and quillet of land" by the local population and where divine service was celebrated "for many years of antiquity".