Sentences with phrase «excavation work began»

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Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

[3] Excavation work on the site began in 1963 and recommenced in 2009.

With that in mind, Stanley begins to question the character - building component of their excavation work when a small metal item found in one of the holes brings their elusive female Warden (Sigourney Weaver) rushing out of her air - conditioned house and into the hot sun.

Whitaker lived and worked in Chicago from 1991 until 2003, during which time she developed «Women in the City», a group of paintings observing the Chicago cityscape; and also, a series of large drawing / paintings on paper called «Ancestral Excavations» which have shown in solo venues around the country and now some of this work will be touring the United States in a group invitational, The Veiling: Visible and Invisible Spaces beginning in Colorado, the Spring of 2008, and traveling to Arkansas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, SUNY in NY, California until 2010.

Their excavation began as an implicit response to a call for site - specificity, for commissioned work from the artist.

In the late 1970s, he began his «excavations» — a series of drawings using gesso, graphite, brushed paint, and a tjanting tool, which allowed him to apply hot wax to his works in a fine, controlled line.