The top half was excavated at a sanctuary site in southern Jordan in 1937.
Hours later, when the burning ceased, he went to shovel in the half-frozen excavated soil, but before he hurled the first shovelful he glanced down and saw the black arm bones crooked up, as if reaching for a helping hand.
In treatment 3, half of the excavated mine waste was thoroughly mixed with an equal amount of dried shredded mushroom using a sterilized wooden stick and returned into the pit.
A German archaeologist in Egypt took the bust to Germany under a law that permitted him to keep half of what was excavated.
In 1905 the museum had teamed up with Harvard on archaeological digs in Giza, after striking a divide-the-spoils deal with Egypt: half of what was excavated would stay in that country, the rest would go to Boston.
Madeleine Burnside, executive director of Mr. Fisher's maritime society, said her archaeologists and researchers had excavated about half of the 500 or so artifacts from the ship and made extensive studies of the wreck site.
Researchers report that half a dozen bowls excavated from the area contain traces of chocolate, the earliest known in North America.
'Half tunnels,' which are excavated as overhangs within steep slopes of hard rocks, have an advantage over conventional full tunnels or open excavations in that they involve less cost and time.
More than 54 million cubic yards (41,000,000 m³) of material were excavated, about half as much as was removed during the building of the Suez Canal.
In 1880, the intact half of the rock was excavated from the pier, and the broken piece was reattached to it.
Although only about half of Volubilis has been excavated, a number of prominent public buildings are still visible and some, notably a basilica and a triumphal arch, have been reconstructed.
