Sentence examples for preserved objects from inspiring English sources

A related online feature explores Dura through photographs and field records that provide archaeological context for the remarkably preserved objects of daily life discovered at the site.

If generally small and well preserved objects are directly recovered during an archaeological excavation, this time an indirect extraction has been carried out: as the find, part of the grave-good, was quite complex and fragile, a large soil block with dimensions 40 × 15 × 10 cm3 has been removed (Figure 1).

Even the most meticulously preserved object, all glittering and pristine, should hint of its fate".

Should historians and curators be allowed access to these sites to preserve objects?

The icy deep, explorers are finding, can preserve objects much longer than they would last on land.

The icy deep, explorers are finding, can often preserve objects, even precious metals like silver that normally corrode easily.

The New York State Museum was part of a consortium of institutions that assembled in the fall of 2001 to preserve objects from the trade center.

"Our inclination is to preserve objects," explains Henry Lie, head of the Straus Center for Conservation at Harvard, "but also to honor the artist's feelings of how they should change over time".

The long-awaited reopening will mark a milestone in the government's efforts to retrieve and preserve objects and archaeological sites from Iraq's history after almost six years of theft, destruction and violence.

EVER since 1759, when the British government opened to the public the archaeological collections it had bought from Sir Hans Sloane, so providing the inspiration for the British Museum, curators of museums have dedicated themselves to preserving objects.

Unusually, perhaps for being so compliant, they were all awarded pensions, and English Heritage historian Michael Carter says there is evidence some tried to remain together as a community, following the Cistercian rules, preserving objects which they managed to smuggle out with them, and leaving bequests to former brethren.