Bradford then performed his signature subtracting operations — a kind of excavation of the built - up layers performed by sanding, peeling, and stripping away fragments of paper. (bostonglobe.com)
«It is nothing short of a catastrophe,» said Michel al - Maqdissi, former head of excavations in Syria's antiquities department in Damascus, who now works at the Louvre in Paris and maintains contacts in Syria. (sciencemag.org)
The first stimulus to work with the world as found was given by Reed's and Albers's visits of archaeological excavations at the temple of Monte Alban in Mexico. (black-mountain-research.com)