Sentence examples for archaeological writings from inspiring English sources

His archaeological writings include Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes, 3 vol. (1847 64).

Tairona, Indians of the northern Colombian Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, known only from occasional references in Spanish colonial writings and from archaeological study.

The Athenian trireme, which may be considered the epitome of the type, can be reconstructed with reasonable accuracy on evidence gathered from archaeological excavations, painted pottery, and the writings of classical authors such as Thucydides.

Ehrman says that arguments based on the lack of physical or archaeological evidence of Jesus and of any writings from him are poor, as there is no such evidence of "nearly anyone who lived in the first century".

The early history of those cities is known mainly from archaeological finds and from scattered remarks in the writings of later Greek historians.

Like Atget, who insisted that his photographs "are simply documents I make," Van Deman gave no hint in her published writings that photography was anything but a tool to advance her archaeological cause.

Dr. Orrell added a disappointingly small amount of archaeological evidence, Shakespeare's own stage directions, a building contract for a similar theater, the writings of Italian theater architects and several other contemporaneous images, and came up with a description of the size and nature of the theater.

1391 Ancona, Italy 1452 Cremona, Italy Cyriacus of Ancona, byname of Ciriaco De' Pizzicolli (born 1391, Ancona, Papal States died 1452, Cremona, Duchy of Milan), Italian merchant and Humanist whose writings, based on topographical observations and antiquarian findings relating to ancient Greek civilization, proved useful for later archaeological surveys and classical scholarship.

Greatly influenced by the writings of the archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Wheeler emphasised the need for a strong, developed methodology when undertaking an archaeological excavation, believing in the need for strategic planning, or what he termed "controlled discovery", with clear objectives in mind for a project.

Archaeological bone.

They are serious archaeological digs.