Sentences with phrase «excavated ancient»

The newly excavated ancient Mayan site of Caracol is located deep in the Chiquibul Rainforest.

The long - term retention of excavated ancient human remains is a fundamental principle of scientific research, regulated by professional ethics and guidelines, and is a museum practice that has been much examined around the world.

The team of archaeologists excavated an ancient...

Upon arrival, a stop is made at El Zanjón de Granados, a series of excavated ancient tunnels that serve as both an archaeological museum and event space.

Plot: The scientific crew on the spaceship Prometheus finds an alien life forces after excavating Ancient Mesopotamian, Aztec and Magdalenian caves that were discovered on a star map.

A partial view of the site where archaeologists are excavating the ancient mound.

While excavating the ancient royal Maya city El Peru - Waka», archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis uncovered the tomb of a royal woman.

I also have to locate and recover bodies just as we might locate and excavate an ancient site.»

Greek and Danish archaeologists excavate the ancient Greek harbour town Lechaion — University of Copenhagen Christian & Michaela: «Thank you for your amazing dating service — we are now engaged and planning our wedding for next year!

Michael Heckenberger from the University of Florida, is excavating ancient ruins that indicate Fawcett was at least partially right in his quest for a lost city.

Although the two mounds that look like a saddle have been a focal point in the Changsha area of south - central China for more than 2,000 years, it wasn't until 1971 that archaeologists began excavating these ancient tombs, and what they uncovered was astounding.

Pathway «s plot, set in 1936, revolves around Nazis expanding throughout Europe in the Middle East as the Germans excavate ancient ruins for artifacts and conduct occult rituals.

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You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.»

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra, kinda the direction our country is headed in... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.

ANCIENT PAWS New radiocarbon evidence has identified three dogs excavated in Illinois, including this pooch, as the oldest canines in the Americas.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

Researchers at the University of Leicester and a group of Richard III enthusiasts spent two years scouring ancient maps and excavating what is now a parking lot to find a skeleton they thought to be his.

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

To help clear up the evolution of farming in the West, the investigators compared genetic information from Europeans living during the Neolithic period (a.k.a. the late Stone Age, 10,000 - 4,000 years ago; the chronology varies between Europe and the Near East) with that from nine individuals excavated from two ancient settlements in Anatolia (the area between the Black and the Mediterranean Seas).

The two scholars have spent much of their careers excavating far to the south of Mersa Gawasis, uncovering the remains of ancient Axum, the seat of a kingdom that arose around 400 B.C. in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.

So to really understand the ancients, you have to be able to understand how they approached the sea, and the only way to do that is to excavate shipwrecks.

Cape Gelidonya was the first ancient wreck excavated in its entirety on the seabed, the first excavated by a diving archaeologist.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

They stumbled on their finding when excavating the sites of two ancient villages some 50 kilometers south of Tbilisi.

And it is also home to the epicenter of the ancient Maya civilization, holding the largest excavated Maya city, Tikal.

Excavated by a team of researchers led by D'Andrea of Simon Fraser, the bones analyzed for this study were recovered from the kitchen and living floors of an ancient farming community known as Mezber.

ANCIENT NETWORKERS DNA from four Stone Age people — including the two shown here as they looked when excavated, top, and at the time of death, bottom — suggests that hunter - gatherers have long formed groups with few close relatives.

Robot explorers might also aim for lava tubes, tunnels excavated by ancient volcanic flows and shielded from radiation.

We are working to map, excavate and repair the ancient buildings.

It is illegal to remove archaeological samples from Egypt, so the researchers dated items from museum collections in Europe and North America, as well as freshly excavated seed samples from Tell es - Sakan on the Gaza Strip, which was an outpost of ancient Egypt.

These environmental records, in combination with ancient tools that have been excavated from archeological sites within Olorgesailie, help tell the tale of a hominin species that could very well be the ancestor of modern humans.

The most ancient viable seed, from a 2,000 - year - old date, was excavated from a fortress near the Dead Sea.

Münster archaeologists excavated a unique Roman relief depicting an unknown god in an ancient sanctuary in Turkey.

Now, new techniques for analyzing residues in excavated jars and identifying tiny amounts of plant material suggest that ancient Near Easterners indulged in a range of psychoactive substances.

Or maybe it's one of the ancient Linear B clay tablets excavated at Knossos in Crete, inscribed with recognisable numerals and part - pictographic signs such as animal heads, handled cups and chariot wheels?

To do so, they used new techniques to carefully cull chloroplast DNA from ancient rice 900 -2,800-years-old, which had been excavated from seven archaeological sites in Japan and Korea.

In 2010, Till Hanebuth, a geologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigers.

Münster classical scholars discovered invaluable ancient Syrian mosaics and buildings and are excavating one of the few sites that are currently accessible for studies on ancient Roman Syria despite the tense political situation in the Middle East.

This year, geneticists at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide hope to recover DNA from a roughly 18,000 - year - old H. floresiensis tooth, which was excavated in 2009 from the Liang Bua site on the Indonesian island of Flores.

After a drought revealed the seawall of a Byzantine Empire harbor town near Istanbul, archeologists excavated what was a thriving ancient center.

There are many efforts to identify dinosaurs excavated from sites in many parts of the world but being able to identify new species and seeing full - sized reconstructions of the ancient creatures are always exciting to experience.

(b) The ancient samples used in this study were excavated at three archaeological sites in East England: Hinxton, Oakington and Linton.

Arab polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre ASHKELON, Israel, July 24 — Harvard University archeologists excavating Canaanite ruins surrounding the site of the ancient port city of

A Short History of Ancient Iran Evidence of settled communities in Iran date back to at least the 5th millennium BC (as evidenced by 7,000 year - old wine jars that have been excavated in the Zagros Mountains).

More than 600 years later, as they were building a new church, inhabitants of the town excavated the site of the ancient Roman baths and uncovered one of the red - tiled villas.

Kerkyra Archaeological Museum displays archaeological finds from excavated sites across the island, most notably from Kanoni, Corfu's ancient capital.

See towering pyramids and temples surrounded by an ancient marketplace, sweat bath, and the largest Maya ball court ever excavated.

Guests enter the Palazzo through huge wooden doors and pass along an elegant arcade of Doric columns with ancient artefacts on display that were excavated on site.

Many of the Tikal ruins remain unexplored; who knows what secrets are left to be excavated, and what else we will learn about this ancient and amazing Mayan culture of Guatemala.