Sentences with phrase «larger excavated»

A major Maya ceremonial center, and one of the countries larger excavated sites, the view from the largest pyramid El Castillo is remarkable.

A major ceremonial center, and one of the country's larger excavated sites, the view from the largest pyramid — El Castillo — is remarkable.

A major ceremonial center, and one of the countries larger excavated sights, the view from the largest pyramid El Castillo is remarkable.

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

Not exact matches

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish, the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem, archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each corner.

Just a fraction of the Dinaledi Chamber — a plot about the size of a large manhole cover — has been excavated.

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

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.»

But this initial study helps raise the possibility that some of the original mantle mineralogy, if excavated, may be preserved in the Moon's largest impact basin.

LeBlanc and his crew also noticed that many walls they excavated were missing large numbers of stones.

Similar equipment was used to preserve the largest Viking warship ever found after it was excavated from the banks of Denmark's Roskilde fjord.

In July, archaeologist Tristram Kidder of Washington University in St. Louis and his Chinese colleagues discovered evidence of even older agricultural fields beneath the excavated houses and a larger buried town about two miles away.

Their finds include the world's largest duck - billed dinosaur, the largest dinosaur skull ever excavated, and approximately 60 separate partial remains of Triceratops, the three - horned behemoth common to this area of North America at the time.

A research team led by Marc Lebeau of the European Center for Upper Mesopotamian Studies and Antoine Suleiman of the Directorate - General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria) began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound — or «tell» — rising out of the flat steppes near the Khbr River.

«The building that we are excavating is in the shadow — immediately to the southeast — of the very, very large palace of Herod the Great, his compound and the later seat of the Roman governors (praetorium).»

Once dismissed as a probable trash heap, the site is now recognized as a large Hohokam village from about A.D. 750 to 1150, and it is a shining example of preservation archaeology, in which sites are excavated and preserved in concert with development.

Mellaart excavated 200 houses in four seasons; Hodder, with a much larger team, has uncovered 3 houses in six seasons.

Through a dialogue encouraged by Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, this year large numbers of Western archaeologists began to excavate Iranian sites for the first time since Iran's 1979 revolution.

Every excavated house yielded large quantities of ceramic artifacts used in the hand spinning of cotton.

But French archaeologists excavating a large Neolithic village in Cyprus reported the discovery of an intact skeleton of a cat carefully buried beside the remains of a human, along with various tools and ceremonial objects.

Clays also tend to be found in and around large impact craters, where material from deep below the surface has been excavated.

He helped excavate what's thought to be the largest titanosaur — the last long - necked, plant - eating sauropod dinosaur group — discovered in southern Patagonia.

Rather than excavate, the team intends to use the Swedish Research Council's largest ever archaeo logical grant to reexamine spectacular existing finds using modern methods such as isotopic analysis.

That changed in 2013, when researchers excavating the remains of a Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri in Israel uncovered 40 large ceramic jars, pictured above, in a storage room dated to the Middle Bronze Age (1900 to 1600 B.C.E.).

Lava flows three billion or four billion years ago, for instance, flooded lunar plains and filled craters there, whereas large impacts excavated vast amounts of lunar material that fell to the surface, burying or obscuring nearby craters.

This view of 1,000 - mile - wide Caloris basin — among the largest known asteroid impacts in the solar system — shows how lava (orange) filled the blast site before new craters excavated the original basin (purple).

Salmon excavate streambed holes in which to lay eggs, setting off a chain of events that has surprisingly large geographical effects.

It is the largest underground opening ever excavated at two kilometres depth.

In 1958, Charles Camp of the University of California excavated a large horizon of at least 12 dead individuals.

``... we lack compelling scenarios leading to the origin of iron meteorites... Early solar system collisions have been called upon to excavate this iron [from the cores of the largest asteroids], although numerical impact models have found this task difficult to achieve, particularly when it is required to occur many dozens of times, yet not a single time for asteroid Vesta.»

This object comes from the largest Anglo - Saxon cemetery excavated in England.

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

The first «playground» for your children is the Greek Theater, a masterpiece of acoustics, completely excavated in the rock and one of the largest theatres in the Greek world.

Witness some of the greatest viking artifacts along with several nearly complete boats, including the Oseberg ship, excavated from the largest known ship burial in the world.

Across the bay from Corozal Town about 3 miles (5 kilometres) along the coast are Los Cerros with large mayan mounds, - some of which have not yet been excavated.

Altun Ha was one of the largest Mayan trading hubs and is the country's most excavated ruin with more than 250 buildings for visitors to view.

Unlike many excavated ruins where the majority of the visible structures are pyramids and large royal burial sites, Caracol is large and well - explored enough that you can still see examples of residential areas, agricultural areas and gathering places, although the buildings that were once there haven't always survived.

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.

Tikal: The Tikal ruins in the Petén district of Guatemala are, in excavated area at least, larger and more spectacular than any Maya site in Belize.

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

We had excavated a burial with an offering inside two large dishes, one placed upsidedown on the other so that they were resting lip to lip.

There are no stelae at this site, but there are rich tombs where a large carved jade pendant and a carved Jade head were excavated.

Where we excavated these sites, like the Franco site, we did not find plazas and large platforms for buildings.

En route to Belize City by boat in the 1920s, Gann made a stop on Ambergris to excavate the «largest mound» on the northern part of the island.

During this challenging 9 - day adventure you'll visit the ruins of Choquequirao — one of the most remote Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes, often referred to as Machu Picchu's sister, with large portions of the site yet to be excavated.

Many of the ruins have been consumed by the jungle, so venturing from one excavated site to another will usually involve light hiking through patches of large trees.

The largest Maya city ever excavated in Belize, Caracol is a huge site that features majestic temples that modern visitors can climb to enjoy a spectacular view of the surrounding Chiquibul forest reserve.

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.

Think of it like an adventurous version of Dig - Dug, where you excavate a large, mostly interconnected mine.