Sentences with phrase «archeological dig of»

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

«This dataset represents the biggest archeological dig of the universe to date,» says Abraham Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University who was not involved in the study.

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The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, a museum and active archeological dig, also attracts many visitors.

But it was also the nihilism of my 20s that I wanted to keep buried, that part of my life that felt more like an archeological dig than a personal story.

We have no record of it in the Bible, but archeological digs reveal that it was at this very same time that the cities of Shechem and Samaria were destroyed!

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@Jen Archeological digs have also uncovered proof of Mayan temples, so I guess human sacrifice is okay too.

There are over 20,000 archeological digs confirming the places and events recorded in scripture, and many more pieces of evidence of the historical accuracy of the Bible.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, 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.

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's like an archeological discovery where you find some manuscript that confirms an ancient oral tradition, he says, except instead of digging in the dirt, we dug into the genome.

The significance of tree islands as the only dry ground has long been acknowledged, but their significance also lies beneath the earth, as archeological findings from a dig in 2010 present data that prehistoric humans played a significant role in the formation of tree islands, and in turn, the archeological discoveries should be considered in current Everglades restoration models.

Çatalhöyük's maze of dwellings are now nothing more than archeological digs.

Let's kick things off on a small note of positivity — which, to be frank, is equivalent to a 10 - man archeological dig amid scads of dusty, indistinct murk.

SYNOPSIS: It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an «archeological» dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus.

Most of us had probably forgotten that the film starts in the Sonora desert in Mexico, with barely visible figures wandering through dust storms — the same sort of feint that The Exorcist used by kicking off at an archeological dig in Iraq before getting around to the head - spinning money shots.

For example, my garbage can archeological dig and School of Athens speech bubble exercise were always crowd pleasers.

I have often heard it said that some schools are like archeological sites; digging would reveal layer after layer of fossilized school reforms and obsolete programs.

Indeed, one way to depict U.S. public schools circa 2016 is a vast archeological dig with layers of earlier civilizations visible as we excavate and with the pottery shards and tools that each used now heaped messily all over the place.

The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, a museum and active archeological dig, also attracts many visitors.

Try these 5 Easy Boredom Busters For Your Dog if your dog is left alone in your yard for an extended period of time with nothing to do (other dogs or toys to play with), you may find the doggie version of an archeological dig when you come home.

Scores of 2,000 - year - old Roman roof tiles were found in Gloucester, England in an archeological dig in 1969, but an archaeologist just recently noticed a cat's footprint on one of the tiles while sifting through them in the city museum, thus proving what cat parents have known for centuries — that cats will walk across whatever we're working on!

The Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation conducts archeological digs and historical research into the history of Ballast Point.

Artifacts from the archeological dig at Bear Cove, now the site of the Prince Rupert ferry dock, along with aboriginal exhibits and a colorful recounting of European settlement, forestry, mining and commercial fishing are displayed at the Port Hardy Museum and Archives downtown.

The crude texture of her characters» skin, the brash and deliberate outlines that define the exaggerated figures within tableaux, the patches of thinly applicated paint that barely cover the ground, or the dug - out passages of drawing that carve into the surface, are all archeological — as if she was unearthing some hidden pattern that was embedded into the canvas all along.

One of his most famous works, the Tate Thames Dig, was executed in three phases: an archeological dig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discoursDig, was executed in three phases: an archeological dig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discoursdig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discourses.

The work features imagery from Attic vases, others the Kouros, or Edymion figure; some make use of ancient Greek, Coptic and early Arabic scribbling and graffiti, functioning like a wall found in a Ptolemaic archeological dig.

A Yves Klein Blue moon rises over smaller more concrete clues of Ruby's personal archeological dig in EXHM (4765)-- where small images of excavations, historical sites, archeological digs, and protests are evidence of the exhumation of family burial grounds, repeatedly collaged onto a dirty cardboard surface.

His archeological digs and museum interventions celebrate the value of exploration and learning, and invite audiences to embark on their own journey of intellectual discovery.

He cites late 19th - century archeological digs in Iran and other parts of the Eastern world for creating interest in ancient, non-Western art, even if it was swept under the proverbial rug.

There is so much physical destruction happening in different parts of the world, to the extent that many functioning cities look like archeological digs.

As if ancient relics recovered from some archeological dig, his paintings are like modern hieroglyphs each telling a story of a time and place, that of the here and now.

Thin color has flooded the canvas or, as he increasingly turns to smaller formats, sheets of paper, and receded, leaving visible a residue of barely emerged imagery: hutlike structures, wobbly Roman numerals, luminous grids that suggest an archeological dig seen through patchy fog.