Sentence examples for excavating from inspiring English sources

"From our previous experience excavating other sections of the pipeline, excavation and removal of the pipe will not release airborne contamination," Angela Vincent, of Research Sites Restoration Ltd, said.

Best known for his excavation of Jericho (1930 36), Garstang entered the field of archaeology by excavating Roman remains in Britain, notably at Ribchester, Lancashire.

The old local tale of whimpering children was given some substance in the 1960s when archaeologists excavating the Roman fort found a number of babies' skeletons.

This winter the Neues Museum in Berlin, home to the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the discovery with a major exhibition of artefacts from the Amarna period (between 1353 BC and 1336 BC).Borchardt's team of 200 workers spent five years excavating the city, and collected between 7,000 and 10,000 artefacts.

A piece of research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Ian Kuijt of the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, and Bill Finlayson of the Council for British Research in the Levant, may shed more light on the matter.Dr Kuijt and Dr Finlayson have been excavating a site called Dhra, in Jordan, near the Dead Sea.

George Prochnik sets about excavating Zweig's sensibility and psychology as the celebrated writer tried and failed to endure the greatest upheaval his native Europe had ever known.

After a stint excavating a Spanish galleon and a few jobs at established technology firms, she ended up in the world of Silicon Valley start-ups.

Armed with a firman, or Ottoman permit, and financed by a group of rich backers in Berlin, Humann and his team, in 1878, began excavating a site in Bergama, near the modern city of Izmir on the Aegean coast of western Turkey.Humann's most important discovery was the altar of Zeus, which dates from the second century BC.

Beneath a hill owned by an atomic research agency in north Mumbai, roaring diggers have almost finished excavating two half-kilometre-long tunnels.

Licences for excavating coal, gold, silver and iron ore are divvied up and doled out to the regime's most powerful organisations.

This involves excavating a grave, placing its remains in a casket and re-burying them at the bottom of the grave, leaving room for more coffins.