Sentence examples for excavation from inspiring English sources

But he also added that once Network Rail had pressed ahead as planned with the excavation of 6,000 tonnes of ballast, engineers had no choice but to continue even as problems became apparent.

Sinodinos said that he read the board notes and visited an excavation site once.

But yesterday, police search teams started excavation of a site at Old Damson Lane, Solihull, near Birmingham airport, about four miles from the boys' homes, in the hope of finding their bodies.

Though they were not slaves, the pyramid builders led a life of hard labour, said Adel Okasha, supervisor of the excavation.

They may have been surmounted by a wooden palisade but no excavation has provided proof of this.

Did you ever visit the excavation sites?

ON December 6th 1912 Ludwig Borchardt, a German archaeologist, and his excavation team uncovered a spectacular bust of Queen Nefertiti.

After the first world war Germany lost its excavation licence for Egypt.

Germany has since regained excavation licences for Egypt, but not for the Amarna site.

The geology is well-understood, and some of the excavation for the new locks was done in an aborted American effort in the 1940s.

A full section of the show details the history of the excavation and the diplomatic issues that have troubled the discovery ever since.