Sentence examples for excavation in from inspiring English sources

To sink the arena, $12 million was spent to excavate 31,500 cubic yards of dirt over four months, which was the largest excavation in Houston history.

Early excavation in Iran was limited to a few sites.

Excavation, in archaeology, the exposure, recording, and recovery of buried material remains.

After an unsuccessful excavation in Ithaca in 1878, he resumed work at Hisarlık the same year.

Renewed excavation in the caves, beginning in 1958, brought new specimens to light.

"Archeologists would have to do an excavation in my house," he said.

With the help of the carabinieri, Rizzo had traced all the fragments to an illicit excavation in Cerveteri.

Modern excavation in the area uncovered a distinctive gray-burnished pottery, which archaeologists now call Esdraelon ware.

I decided to take a year off before starting college and devote myself to salaried excavation in exotic places.

Excavation in 1990 uncovered an Akkadian tomb and a large temple to Bau (Gula), the Mesopotamian goddess of healing.

Peale, who had accompanied the archaeological expedition, chronicled the excavation in his painting Exhuming the Mastodon (1806).