Excavations

La Societe Guernesiaise lecture entitled Excavations at the Nunnery Alderney 2008, by Dr Jason Monaghan, at the Frossard Theatre, Candie, 8pm.

This Is Guernsey 2009

Excavations have revealed an impressive city with stunning royal reliefs.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Excavations quickly revealed human burials, at least 500 in all, beneath the chapel floor and in the churchyard.

Theorized Reconstruction of a 17th Century Jesuit Church in America 2009

Excavations were begun in the area of what would turn out to be the city of Cahokia in the early twentieth century, with a combination of some lucky guesses for sites, and with the great revolution to map America with highways, crucial archeological digs were discovered.

“Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi” by Timothy R. Pauketat (Viking, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

Excavations are underway, and already a massive amount of broken pottery, the leftovers from the ritual meals after animal sacrifice and the bones of animals kosher only have been found.

Traveling in the West Bank (Part 1) 2011

Excavations here have revealed spectacular royal tombs of the Macedonian kings, including the burial place of Philip.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Such objects that pierce the present with the past, or touch Spencer with the evidence of power, are littered throughout his poems like pottery fragments in an archaeological dig, reminding him, as he writes in "Greek Excavations", of "the great key of a skill; / The life the generals and the bankers cheat."

Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer – review 2011

"Scattered Evidence: Excavating Antioch-on-the-Orontes" Excavations during the 1930s brought to light the ancient city of Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey).

A sampling from area museum exhibits Post 2010

Excavations in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and of course the dazzling discoveries from the royal Macedonian tombs at Vergina in northern Greece have brought to life the world of Alexander like nothing else.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The extremes of the immorality of the Canaanites are illustrated not only by their sexual perversity, but also by their sacrifice of children.9 Excavations have revealed that children from three to twelve months old were burned on altars.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011