Sentences with phrase «archaeologists digging»

Archaeologists digging near Bet Shemesh uncovered a perfectly preserved ancient road dating back to the time of Emperor Hadrian.

We were pretending to be archaeologists digging for dinosaurs.

Such startling propositions — the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years — have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

In fact, he said, archaeologists digging in the Sinai have «found no trace of the tribes of Israel — not one shard of pottery.»

Such startling propositions - the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years - have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

As such, you had to unpick the story of the place like an archaeologist digging at ruins, or by reading the abstruse descriptions on items plundered from crisp - dry corpses, or rust - stuck chests.

Not exact matches

During a dig that year, archaeologists found the remains of 42 children, a number that has since increased.

She began her travels abroad with Europe, during college, and later returned to work as a field archaeologist in the U.K., digging up Vikings, before attending graduate school in New York.

I've always imagined that Browning was talking about the ruins of the Roman Forum, which for centuries, before the archaeologists started to dig, were known as the Campo Vaccino, or cow pasture.

Science was great back in the early 1900s when archaeologist in the middle east thought that their digs were confirming bible stories.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Did you know that whenever an Archaeologist has tried to disprove Bible details about history, the Archaeologists were proved wrong when they dug into details and searched?

Seems like I feel the same way about you — there is so much that has been dug up by biblical archaeologist and ignored by your type — every time someone like you opens their mouth a biblical archaeologist shoves another spade in it.

Nor is it the fact that in more than a century's worth of digging up the Middle East by archaeologists, not a single trace of any of these postulated «source texts» has ever turned up.

Maybe archaeologists will dig up something that will shed light on the contradiction, or maybe there's some other piece of evidence that I'm unaware of.

It was in part this gradual eroding of the buildings that formed the mounds in which archaeologists now dig up the ancient culture.

When an archaeologist does a dig at a site and finds a piece of broken pottery, what does he say?

found nothing but a rusty nail and what looked like very rusted bottlecap... perhaps these credible «modern» archaeologist types and I are both digging in the wrong spot...

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

It is like a set of die, and archaeologist have discovered sets of these in their digs around the ruins of Susa.

«Participants could dig with their hands in fish tanks filled with sand for artefacts such as coins and tiles as well as learning how to «bag» these finds exactly as archaeologists would do and even experiment in putting broken pieces back together.»

Scavenging K would be «like coming to someone's house and finding Coke cans on the floor,» says Mario Martin, an archaeologist and expedition researcher directing this part of the dig.

Archaeologists realized the carving must be part of Templo Mayor, the Great Temple of the Aztec Empire, known to lie somewhere below the city center based on colonial - era accounts and previous limited digging projects.

While digging in Tebtunis in northern Egypt in the winter of 1899 — 1900, British archaeologists stumbled upon portraits of affluent Greco - Egyptians placed over the faces of mummies.

Standing atop Tel Megiddo, George Washington University archaeologist and military historian Eric Cline, the dig's former co-director, overlooks a panorama of biblical and violent lore.

«Having more Greenlandic archaeologists would be very important for Greenland so that they can set their own priorities,» says Konrad Smiarowski, a graduate student at the City University of New York in New York City who leads the dig here.

For archaeologists at a dig, the painstaking work known as picking is an everyday routine.

Roberts co-led the study with archaeologist colleague Thomas Sutikna (who also helped coordinate the 2003 dig), and Matthew Tocheri, a paleoanthropologist at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

Squeezing through gaps so narrow we can't turn our heads, we come to some 6 - metre trenches dug by archaeologists in the 1960s.

Organic remains excavated in and around the caves helped the archaeologists reconstruct an environment very different from the expanse of sand and stone that surrounds the dig today.

The reason Palaeolithic humans were thought to have lived solely on wild meat, says Revedin, is that previous plant evidence was washed away by overzealous archaeologists as they cleaned the tools at dig sites.

«If our hypothesis is correct that all of the finds belong to the same event, we're dealing with a conflict of a scale hitherto completely unknown north of the Alps,» says dig co-director Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage in Hannover.

Digging in Egypt was supposed to be a side project for Bard and her longtime research partner Rodolfo Fattovich, an archaeologist at the Orientale University of Naples.

Archaeologist Del Beck digs through the past of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley in a pit at the Nesquehoning Creek research site.

When a 17 - year civil war in Ethiopia ended in the early 1990s, Fattovich and Bard were among the first archaeologists to return to digging there.

The slopes where huge swaths of soil have been cleared away now resemble the stone - paved terraces of a Latin American pyramid, but that look, says archaeologist Brian Stewart of the University of Cambridge, may be the result of this recent dig, not the work of an ancient civilization.

At the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud, she dug under the direction of Max Mallowan, the British archaeologist married to mystery writer Agatha Christie.

Digging just a few hundred yards away on the main mound of what today is called Tell Brak, the archaeologists recently uncovered large buildings and extensive workshops from the same period — around 3800 B.C. — as well as imported material and fancy tableware.

While combing a field in Svebølle with a metal detector, two amateur archaeologists heard pings and started digging.

At Wonderwerk, Boston University archaeologist Paul Goldberg — a specialist in soil micromorphology, or the small - scale study of sediments — dug chunks of compacted dirt from the old excavation area.

Archaeologists unearthed three distinct layers of artifacts at Madjedbebe, Australia's oldest known site of human habitation, during digs in 2012 and 2015.

Before the next Shard or Gherkin can go up, urban archaeologist Sadie Watson gets to dig down into the city's history, from Roman times to the Great Fire

Some of the most eye - opening new research comes from the western Amazon, where archaeologist Denise Schaan of the Federal University of Pará in Brazil has mapped clusters of mysterious land sculptures dug between 700 and 2,000 years ago.

But Patrick Daly, an archaeologist at EOS who had been working on a dig in the coastal cave, told Rubin and Horton about it and suggested it might be the place they were looking for.

Looking for tsunami records in a sea cave was not something that would have occurred to Horton, and he says Daly's professional generosity — archaeologists are careful about who gets near their digs — and his own and Rubin's openness to insights from other disciplines made the research possible.

Miles Russell, a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University and one of the archaeologists leading the dig, said, «The discovery is of great significance as it is the only time where evidence of a villa and the villa's occupants have been found in the same location in Britain.

Rudenko's dig diaries contain reports of weather far colder than what modern archaeologists experience in the Altai.

Archaeologists excavating at the sprawling Buddhist complex of Bhamala Stupa, north of Islamabad, at first thought they were digging up yet another stone wall.

It was a bit of pinky from a young girl that could have easily been missed among the thousands of bones dug up by archaeologists at the site each year.