When a site like the Palace of Minos at Knossos or the city of Harappā in Pakistan has been excavated, and the excavations are over, the excavator and the antiquities service of the country concerned have to face the problem of what to do with the excavated structures.
When a site like the Palace of Minos at Knossos or the city of Harappa in Pakistan has been excavated and the excavations are over, the excavator and the antiquities service of the country concerned have to face the problem of what to do with the excavated structures.
Though he could not read their hieroglyphic script, Evans was convinced by the remains of their art and architecture that the Minoans were every bit as brilliant and sophisticated as the classical Greeks.Mr MacGillivray, a seasoned excavator who now digs at Palaikastro, site of a Minoan city in eastern Crete, used to teach Aegean archaeology at Columbia University in New York.
It is not unusual for buildings in China to last only a few decades, in part because they were badly built.Biting a bit offWith excavator arms that now reach up 12 storeys (about 40 metres), demolition firms can "chew a building apart" from the top down, says Richard Diven, an Idaho demolitions consultant.
It turns out that there are only one or two types of key for many models of hydraulic excavator.
POLICE used an excavator to dig up the floor of an office adjoining a mosque near Port of Spain, Trinidad's capital, in a search for weapons.
However painstaking the digging process, an excavator can always promote an extravagant theory under the guise of interpreting the finds.As he started to unearth a prehistoric mound at Knossos in Crete at the turn of the 20th century, Evans put his imagination into high gear.
Caterpillar, a maker of vehicles that dig, pull or plough, is shifting some of its excavator production from abroad to Texas.
Sporadic attempts to realize the tunnel engineer's dream of a mechanical rotary excavator culminated in 1954 at Oahe Dam on the Missouri River near Pierre, in South Dakota.
The Antiquities Service and a museum of Egyptian antiquities were established in Egypt by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, a great excavator who attempted to preserve sites from destruction, and the Prussian Heinrich Brugsch, who made great progress in the interpretation of texts of many periods and published the first major Egyptian dictionary.
The excavator has inferred that the basin was a dock to which ships could be brought from the nearby estuary via an artificial channel that would have been kept clear of silt by controlling the flow of water from the spillway.
