When properly excavated, she said, the ensemble of items establishes the date of the intact artifact and yields countless details about historical and social context.
When they excavated a Scythian burial mound in the Russian region of Tuva about 10 years ago, archaeologists literally struck gold.
Dr Chen, indeed, first made his name in 1984, when he excavated one at Chengjiang in Yunnan province.
The body was found on Saturday when officers excavated the cesspool behind Mr. Caietta's house, at 275 Forest Road West.
Last year, when Urs Fischer excavated a hole — a gaping meditation on being and nothingness — in Gavin Brown's gallery, it was hard to imagine how he could top it.
But the glass's narrowness made it difficult to dig into, and the hard brownie chunks, when finally excavated, seemed hardly worth the effort.
By Andrea K. Scott Last year, when Urs Fischer excavated a hole — a gaping meditation on being and nothingness — in Gavin Brown's gallery, it was hard to imagine how he could top it.
When archaeologists excavated the cities of ancient Mesopotamia, they were amazed not just by what they found but by where they found it: in the middle of an unpopulated desert.
In 1902 a homeowner tried to dig himself a cistern and instead found what proved, when fully excavated, to be a prehistoric burial site that descended over 36 feet underground, spreading on three levels across an area more than a mile square.
Further evidence confirming the assignment of the pyramid to Neferhetepes was discovered by Audran Labrousse in 1979 when he excavated the ruins of the temple.
