archaeological site

These trees fan out around an archaeological site called Temlaxam, where ancestors of some Ts’msyen, Gitanyow, Gitxsan, and Nisga’a people lived for thousands of years, until a series of natural disasters wiped out the city about 3500 years ago.

The Roman archaeological site of Pompeii will limit the number of daily visitors to the site to 20,000 a day after a steep rise in visitors.

"Structure costs would be astronomical. Even if we had the money, where would you put the foundations? The whole of the peninsula is one big archaeological site, so there is nowhere to put the foundations."

In a statement to the BBC, a representative of Cogat, the military division that co-ordinates Israeli government activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, described the demolition of the centre as an “enforcement operation… on a spot where an order forbade construction” and that Khaled’s buildings were in an area “designated as an archaeological site”.

The majority of tombs presented one single drinking vessel as a grave good, in what would have been a specific funeral rite of this archaeological site.