The phrase 'conduct excavations' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an action of digging or searching for something. For example: Archaeologists conducted excavations in the area, hoping to find artefacts from the ancient civilization.
Today, the island is uninhabited apart from the resident caretakers, and visiting archaeologists who regularly conduct excavations.
Little of Nineveh – near present-day Mosul – has so far been explored, because it has been judged too dangerous until now to conduct excavations.
And then she snuck out at night to conduct excavations in the lawn, labouring into the small hours with torch and trowel.
To their credit, after the finds of 2004, city authorities made the painful decision of delaying the construction of a much-needed metro system to allow archaeologists to conduct excavations first.
Emily Vermeule, an emeritus professor of classical philology and archaeology at Harvard University who started her career with the discovery of an ancient Mycenaean tomb and went on to conduct excavations in Greece, Turkey, Libya and Cyprus, died on Feb. 6 at her home in Cambridge, Mass.
The focus of the work is to document the distribution of the archaeological shell middens, conduct excavations, obtain samples for radiocarbon dating and record the cultural traditions associated with the current collection of shell middens.
He has been conducting excavations on Palau since 1999.
Returning to Egypt (1930 33), she conducted excavations in Al-Wāḥāt al-Khārijah (the Kharga oasis).
Dr. Andrew Hill, a Yale paleontologist, said he had conducted excavations near the discovery site for more than two decades and still had a legitimate permit that covered the land where the Orrorin fossils were found.
After conducting excavations of the Zimbabwe ruins in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Randall-MacIver wrote Medieval Rhodesia (1906), in which he contended that the ruins were not built by an ancient and vanished white civilization as was currently believed but were of purely African origin and that they dated from about the 14th century; his view was borne out by later archaeological study.
(Not until the late 20th century was the full extent of Calvert's role widely known.) In seven major and two minor campaigns between 1870 and 1890, Schliemann conducted excavations on a large scale mainly in the central area of the Hisarlık mound, where he exposed the remains of a walled citadel.
