In his plays and short stories he excavated the human condition with more tenderness and honesty than anybody else I've read.
The site was excavated in 2008 by experts from the Museum of London Archaeology.
For years I have been hearing rumours of a gigantic sauropod – think tiny head, long neck, bulky body and tapering tail – excavated from the southernmost reaches of Argentina by Drexel University paleontologist Kenneth Lacorvara and his team.
Then, last weekend, the authorities discovered and excavated five graves containing 28 burned bodies in the hills that border the western edge of the city.
The controversy centres on Le Corbusier's alleged past as a "militant fascist" and "antisemite", aspects of his life and work that have been excavated in two recently published books.
In 2012 the remains of The Curtain, where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed, were excavated ahead of redevelopment.
Millions of hectares of coastal wetlands, including mangroves, have been cleared to make room for shrimp ponds excavated a meter deep into the wetland substrate then filled with briny water and shrimp.
Shards of 4,500-year-old 4,500-year-old 4,500-year-olde follow a pottery originating in Orknexcavatedttinh archipelago; the bones of animals slaughtered at Stonehenge carry traces of Scottish Wiltshirettish nationalists should mull that.
The Chinese province of Yunnan has prospered on the back of a fast-growing trade in jade excavated from Kachin state, but that has been disrupted by the fighting.
For example, Istanbul's Kalenderhane mosque (a site that has in turn served as a Roman bath, an Orthodox church and a Catholic church) had been scientifically excavated and sensitively conserved by Turkish and American specialists; the building's Byzantine features are still well displayed.
All were excavated; none is more than 30cm high.
