Wheeler was impatient to start excavations, and in July 1921 started a six-week project to excavate at the Roman fort of Segontium; accompanied by his wife, he used up his holiday in order to oversee the project.
If the team is right, archaeologists will soon start excavations.
Last week, Mr. Silverstein started excavation work for rebuilding 7 World Trade Center; his insurance company has already agreed to pay his claim for that building.
But yesterday, police search teams started excavation of a site at Old Damson Lane, Solihull, near Birmingham airport, about four miles from the boys' homes, in the hope of finding their bodies.
They were students at Harvard when Dr. George M. A. Hanfmann, a professor there, started the first excavations 42 years ago.
The first excavation of the tomb started in 1898 under the supervision of French archaeologist and Egyptologist Émile Amélineau.
Waziri said he expects more discoveries to be made there when archaeologists start more excavation work in January.
In July 2012, construction of a new building began with the installation of a tower crane and the start of excavation.
In "Museums Should Dig In" (Op-Ed, Dec. 23), Bernard Frischer proposes that museums start sponsoring excavations at archaeological sites, in partnerships with countries around the world.
First excavations in modern times undertaken by Europeans starting in the 1840s.
