unearthed

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The long-running series “Secrets of the Dead” doesn’t always showcase recent discoveries—the subject of “China’s Bronze Kingdom,” for instance, was unearthed in 1986.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The pavilion houses a giant boxcar that was unearthed outside the Majdanek concentration and death camp in Poland, and is believed to have transported Jews to the camp during the Holocaust.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

That it does, which is why these books have been unearthed from the stacks yet again.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Also unearthed were fireplaces containing evidence of the burning of toothed wrack seaweed to form soda ash.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

But even if the man’s every word was gospel, Dewey and his colleagues had not yet unearthed one bit of solid supporting evidence—“courtroom evidence.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote