Sentence examples for first excavated in from inspiring English sources

Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.

Pompeii has "always been an emergency" since it was first excavated in 1748, said Grete Stefani, the current archaeological director of the site.

Nimrud was first excavated in the 1840s by the British explorer Austen Henry Layard, who unearthed the winged bull gatekeeper statues later sent to the British Museum.

The area was first excavated in the 1960s by another Briton, James Mellaart, now 85, who established that it had been home to an advanced culture of people transitioning from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a more settled farming life.

The cave was discovered in 1907 and first excavated in the 1950s by John Waechter of the Institute of Archaeology in London.

The Zhoukoudian site was first excavated in the 1920s and '30s, when researchers found hominid fossils, stone tools, burnt bones, and what they described as ancient hearths preserved as layers of ash up to several meters thick.

There are the Roman tombs first excavated by Israel in the 1970s — and then abandoned when no Jewish tombs were found.

Situated on a hilly, forest-shrouded promontory south of Sarande, near the Greek border, Butrint (a Unesco World Heritage Site) was first excavated by Italians in the 1920s, who unearthed an amphitheater and Greek-built walls.

Jeitun was first excavated by Professor VM Masson in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Palace of Ashurnasirpal, also known as the North-West Palace, was first excavated by the British explorer Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s.

Cryolophosaurus was first excavated from Antarctica's Early Jurassic, Sinemurian to Pliensbachian aged Hanson Formation, formerly the upper Falla Formation, by paleontologist Dr. William Hammer in 1991.