Sentences with phrase «excavated by»

Peru's Machu Picchu is the ancient Inca site excavated by US explorer Hiram Bingham in 1911.

Excavated by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Guardians and Divine Beasts were excavated by the current citizens of Hyrule, they didn't create them.

We had arrived late so didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked in the museum but we glimpsed the Big Hole, which is in fact, a really big hole and is alleged to be the largest pit ever excavated by hand.

EL Pilar is a 100 acre Middle Pre-Classic and Late Classic Mayan site which is currently being excavated by the University of California.

Also, the elaborate Postclassic burial excavated by Thomas Gann on Ambergris, at «the largest mound, «was probably at Basil Jones.

Human remains excavated by archeologist Phil Orr from Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island in 1959, recently yielded a radio - carbon date of over 13,000 years of age.

Island foxes give birth to their young in simple dens, which are usually not excavated by the foxes themselves.

In 1987, the world's largest prehistoric copper mines were discovered beneath Great Orme, and today visitors can explore a network of tunnels laboriously excavated by our Bronze Age ancestors around 3,500 years ago.

Then spend the night among the enchanting ruins of Machu Picchu, excavated by Hiram Bingham with funding from National Geographic more than a century ago.

The sandblows along the eastern coast of the island today are mobile and are not being replaced by sand from the beach, but from sand excavated by the prevailing south - easterly winds from deflation corridors.

A much better version of this movie may exist somewhere in the editing - room blender, to be excavated by cine - archeologists of the future.

Scientists suggest signs of life from under Mars» surface may not survive in rocks excavated by some meteorite impacts.

For instance, the Opportunity rover is now perched inside the rim of Victoria Crater, a feature 800 meters across and well over 70 meters deep that was excavated by a meteor impact millions of years ago.

Zhoukoudian, not far from Beijing, then called Peking in the West, is the site of a cave first excavated by Franz Weidenreich starting in the late Twenties and during the decade of the Thirties.

This site is being excavated by a team from the University of Barcelona, led by Joan Daura, Montserrat Sanz, Mireia Pedro, Xavier Oms and Pablo Martinez.

The discovery of these two statues in the same building currently being excavated by the research team, indicates the special importance of the building (probably the administrative palace of the ruler of the city), as well as that of the entire city of Hazor.

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

Many fragments were taken from this site during the late nineteenth century, before the temple was excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Egypt Exploration Society) between 1902 - 1909.

Recently excavated by a team from the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Louisiana, the trackway includes 117 footprints thought to represent a number of adults as well as juvenile and infant mammoths.

Originally excavated by a Kansas family on their ranch in 1987, it had sat in the museum basement ever since, until Luis Chiappe, director of the museum's dinosaur institute, decided to take a closer look.

The tracks were made in a layer of volcanic soil at Fossil Lake, a site first excavated by UO science professor Thomas Condon in 1876 and today administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

The shells were excavated by the Dutch physician and researcher Eugène Dubois, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus erectus — now known as Homo erectus.

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

After sorting through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

This was the first dinosaur excavated by any American Museum expedition, and here I introduced the use of plaster of paris in excavating fossils.»

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.

We could not go into the whole story behind the misnamed Apatosaurus fossil excavated by Othniel Marsh in the 1870s, so one of our sources suggested we call it «the first named Brontosaurus» — which it certainly is, whatever the correct designation.

In the next millennium the Hurrians, a people who originated in the mountains of East Anatolia, arrived in the region, founding new royal cities such as Urkesh (excavated by Giorgio and Marilyn Buccellati at Tell Mozan).

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

The Ayodhya site, excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is believed to be the birthplace of the immensely popular Hindu god Rama.

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.

The team contrasted Boncuklu with the nearby site of Pınarbaşı, excavated by Professor Baird in 2003 - 4.

Much of it is a featureless sea of city - built, 12 - story apartment houses, the foundations of which were crudely excavated by German bombs during the Blitz.

Our shared past can only be excavated by shared endeavor, by a painful and constant process of reeducation and rediscovery; in that process, we start from where we are, not where we wish we had stayed.

Governors mentioned by Luke that many historians never believe existed were confirmed by the evidence excavated by Ramsay's archeological team.

Material for the Boring Bricks will be taken from the rocks and dirt excavated by the company's tunnel boring machine.

The underground house took a decade to excavate by its owner and was completed in 1976.

Not exact matches

A definitely more reliable report comes from Patriarch Yeshuyab II in about 635 AD from an excavated inscription by him which was found in an excavation in 1625 AD.

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.

For example, prompted by new techniques for dating pottery, Carl Watzinger in the 1920s reexamined the pottery from Jericho which he and Ernst Sellin had excavated between 1907 and 1909.

By the end of that century, archaeologists had excavated a number of the ruins and were learning about everyday life during biblical times.

Like good poetry, a good spiritual memoir excavates everyday life for beauty and truth, grabs the reader by the shoulders and says, «Pay attention!

Peppersauce bottles have been found, excavated, and uncovered intact in shipwrecks, factories, and trash dumps by bottle diggers / collectors and archaeologists.

A landscaper by trade, he used his own equipment and time to excavate Northbrook «s first swimming pool in the newly developed Meadowhill Park in 1958 (now called the Ed Rudolph Meadowhill Park).

There have been some unexpected increases in cost in grading and excavating, Gullen said, but they've been offset by savings.

Explore the concept of chlorophyll fading from the leaves first by making a color, scratch, and reveal card or doing some leaf excavating in the salt tray.

The ways we engage with our friends, the preferences and hostilities we harbour, the views we have about teachers, parents, education, or people from other ethnic groups — however loosely held — can easily be «excavated» by the student of ideologies, who can then identify, classify and maybe even anticipate the ideas and behaviour people display in their roles as members of a society.

The remains, thought to be over 5000 years old, had been excavated from the site in 2008 and are currently being kept for research by scientists at the University of Sheffield.