Sentence examples for archeological items from inspiring English sources

The rioters broke iron gates, mauled special cops, and pilfered small archeological items in their wild dash for culture.

In 1986, during excavation for the new right-of-way, the Department of Transportation found archeological items from the Narragansett Indians dating from about 2,000 to 4,500 years prior.

Marion True, 56, curator for antiquities at the museum and director of the Getty Villa, is accused of criminal conspiracy to receive stolen goods and illicit receipt of archeological items.

While Shen's educated Confucian contemporaries were interested in obtaining ancient relics and antiques in order to revive their use in rituals, Shen was more concerned with how items from archeological finds were originally manufactured and what their functionality would have been, based on empirical evidence.

Of the roughly 1,000 relics stolen from museums and archeological sites in Egypt since the sweeping protests began there in January, none were items of major importance, said Zahi Hawass, Egypt's minister for antiquities, Agence France-Presse reported.

Few documents and fewer archeological sites from the period remain.

It will disrupt holy native lands and archeological sites.

Other activities include hiking in canyons and visiting archeological sites.

Then the looting of unprotected archeological sites began.

Their deep-diving robot brought up not only pearls, gold bars and jewelry but wooden beams, olive jars and ballast stones, recording each item's position for archeological analysis.

From then, it was used as a political tool to claim the Nationalists were the rightful governors of China, and was a powerful enough propaganda weapon to prompt Beijing to open its own Palace Museum in the Forbidden City with remaining artifacts, donations and items found at more recent archeological digs.