Sentences with phrase «years archeologists»

Over the years archeologists have uncovered 23 Mayan sites, including ruins of El Plantal, Chenchomac and Chunyaxche where they discovered ancient mummies, relics and ceramics dating back over 2300 years ago.

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For years, archeologists and historians said that the Bible is in error because they knew of no city named Calah.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

Imagine an archeologist thousands of years from now who finds a fragment from one of the Harry Potter books.

Archeologists have found salt works that date back as far as 4,500 years.

The Oriental Institute was built almost 100 years ago to house the work of University of Chicago archeologists.

«Even 1,000 years later in villages like Tepecik - Ciftlik and Catlhoyuk, we still find that gathering and especially hunting are important for the culture; thus, the Neolithic way of life took a long time to be fully established, not only culturally so, but also demographically so,» says Anders Gotherstrom, an archeologist at Stockholm University.

There is no doubt that archeologists 50,000 years from now will be pleased to receive KEO.

Its sites have been explored by University of Haifa archeologists for dozens of years.

In the dry hills of the central Asian province, archeologists have unearthed more than 100 corpses that are as much as 4,000 years old, astonishingly well preserved — and caucasian.

We are working with archeologists from Arizona State on this project and hope to have more results in the next year.

Archeologists uncovered the tool underneath eight inches under a layer of volcanic ash that dates back to the eruption of Mount St. Helens 15,800 years ago.

The archeologists found that some of the flint used by this group of homo sapiens were from hundreds of kilometers away, which suggests they had very extensive social and trading network that helped with their survival for the next 4,000 years.

Lara awakens in a tent owned by Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), a mercenary / archeologist, who not coincidentally has spent the last years on the island searching for Himiko's burial chamber.

LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. — One million years from now, archeologists will unearth the most popular breed of SUV that ever graced the globe.

What makes this, her first book in her Draycott Abbey series, such a stellar read is how she manages to combine both the past and the present in one edge - of - your - seat story revolving around an archeologist tracking a priceless 1,000 - year - old sword.

Since then, standards for conducting digs have been tightened up largely thanks to British diplomat and archeologist Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926), once head of the Iraqi Antiquities Service under the British Mandate, who is credited as a seminal participant in establishing both the National Museum of Iraq and the modern - day borders of Iraq (the region of Baghdad and Basra were formed into a single country in 1921, the region of Mosul was added five years later).

I worked as an Archeologist for several years before entering the animal world.

Archeologists continue to study remnants of settlements dating back 200 years to the Presidio's Colonial period, when families such as the Briones and Miramontes likely settled around El Polín.

Humans inhabited these areas thousands of years ago and for the amateur archeologist, the traces of the 600 A.D. earthwork defenses of the Iron Age Votadini people will be an intensely intereseting discovery.

Archeologists believe that humans may have inhabited the Channel Islands for up to 13,000 years, millennia before Europeans set foot on their shores in the 16th century.

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.

In the April «From Shore to Sea» lecture, United States Navy Archeologist Steven Schwartz portrayed the story of a young Native American woman whose 18 years alone on San Nicolas Island inspired author Scott O'Dell to write the Newberry Award - winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Underwater archeologists spent years exploring the caves of Sac Actun and Dos Ojos in Tulum in the Yucatan Peninsula before connecting the two caverns earlier this year.

Forgotten for more than a thousand years, the ATM cave was rediscovered in 1989 by local archeologists.

Archeologists currently excavating the site are revealing burials and occupation levels from the Formative Period (2,500 years ago) on through the enormous fortifications of the 4th century Regional Development period; a scattering of late - period Inca structures seems like an afterthought on the top of the highest hill.

Abandoned by the Maya nearly 1,000 years ago for unknown reasons, Xunantunich was claimed by the jungle until archeologists in the colonial period began conducting excavations in the mid-1890s.

Archeologists uncovered one of the largest carved jades of the Mayan world in the ruins of Altun Ha, an important trading center more than 2,000 years ago.

«Karin Malpeso: Recent Works 2015 - 2017» seems somewhat an ordinary title for a young artist to present her show, and after struggling through the rather small show — where no titles, years, materials, or any kind of information about the work is provided, one has to put oneself into a detective mode, perhaps an archeologist or even an anthropologist.

During these same years, the reflections on prehistoric art by the French archeologist and historian André Leroi - Gourhan gave contemporary artists an opportunity to rethink manual work and the value of an object's fabrication in a consumerist world.

«Homer Was Swept Away» shows a classical Greek painting with heavy water damage in a bent frame, as if it had been swept away in a flood, while «George Washington Eroded» is a portrait of the first president, flaked, peeling and crumbling; it looks like the sort of thing archeologists from the year 3500 would extract from the ruins of what was the United States of America.»

> Archeologists are scrambling to excavate a 2,600 year old city before it becomes a Chinese copper mine qz

Just in time for the Jewish New Year, we find this little nugget of news reported on CNN: Archeologists from Hebrew University unearthed what they believe are 3000 - year - old beekeeping hiYear, we find this little nugget of news reported on CNN: Archeologists from Hebrew University unearthed what they believe are 3000 - year - old beekeeping hiyear - old beekeeping hives.

The archeologists found that some of the flint used by this group of homo sapiens were from hundreds of kilometers away, which suggests they had very extensive social and trading network that helped with their survival for the next 4,000 years.

Archeologists have previously unearthed evidence of environmental changes suddenly wiping out a civilization, such as the 300 - year drought that decimated the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia -LSB-...]

During excavations at the site of Herod the Great's palace in Israel in the early 1960's, archeologists unearthed a small stockpile of seeds stowed in a clay jar dating back 2,000 years.

Brasher said the real estate market coincides with the economy, but he is quick to add that archeologists estimate Tubac was first inhabited 11,000 years ago.