excavation
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On the day Al-Zaharnah monitored the excavation, the crews were working at a painfully slow pace, peeling back the pancaked layers of the building one by one.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2026
Since 1958, archaeologists have returned every year as part of the Harvard Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, making it one of the world's longest running institutional excavation projects.
From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026
Phil Harding, from Wessex Archaeology, who led the excavation, said it was one of the best finds of his long career.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
To determine what influenced hunting decisions at the Bergstrom site, researchers combined archaeological excavation with environmental analysis.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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