* September: John Garstang conducts first excavations at Et-Tell.

* Excavations at Et-Tell by Judith Marquet-Krause begin ( continue through 1935 ).

Antiquities from excavations started to come to the Museum in the later 19th century as a result of the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund under the efforts of E. A.

During the 1970 – 1978 restoration works and excavations inside the building, and under the nearby Muristan, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white meleke limestone was struck.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

The area immediately to the south and east of the sepulchre was a quarry and outside the city during the early 1st century as excavations under the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer across the street demonstrated.

Inscriptions found at Nippur, where extensive excavations were carried on during 1888 – 1900 by John P Peters and John Henry Haynes, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, show that Enlil was the head of an extensive pantheon.

In 1964, a team of Italian archaeologists under the direction of Paolo Matthiae of the University of Rome La Sapienza performed a series of excavations of material from the third-millennium BCE city of Ebla.

Archaeological excavations in the Kerameikos began in 1870 under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society.

The excavations started again in 1927, under the direction of Campbell Thompson, who had already taken part in King's expeditions.

This interpretation was coming under increasing challenge by the time new excavations in 1972 – 73 settled the question.

Archaeological excavations of a number of sites, later identified as Canaanite, show that prosperity of the region reached its apogee during this Middle Bronze Age period, under leadership of the city of Hazor, at least nominally tributary to Egypt for much of the period.

The 25 million tons of fill needed to construct the islands was coming from the Montreal metro's excavations, a public works project that was already under construction before Expo was awarded to Montreal.

During the 1970s, excavations resumed under Jean Perrot.

During the excavations that were carried out, remains of the north corner of the Roman Principia were found under the south transept.

In 1956 excavations at Isthmia by the University of Chicago under the direction of Oscar Broneer uncovered the small sanctuary of Palaimon, which eventually had a tiny Roman round temple in the Corinthian order, which appeared on coins of Corinth in the 2nd century CE ; it was the successor to two previous more modest architectural phases of the sanctuary.

In the 1930s, major excavations were conducted at the site under the leadership of John Marshall, D. K. Dikshitar and Ernest Mackay.

The excavations in the island are among the most extensive in the Mediterranean ; ongoing work takes place under the direction of the French School at Athens and many of the artifacts found are on display at the Archaeological Museum of Delos and the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

The most notable example of this is the " Sacred Cenote " at Chichén Itzá where extensive excavations have recovered the remains of 42 individuals, half of them under twenty years old.

The Papacy started organizing its own investigations with Pope Pius VII ; under Mussolini massive excavations were undertaken from 1938 to 1942.

The first official excavations started in 1908 and were held by the Junta de Museus de Barcelona and directed by Emili Gandia i Ortega under the instructions of Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Pere Bosch-Gimpera.

Recent excavations on the Capitoline uncovered an early cemetery under the Temple of Jupiter.

Catching Louis by surprise, Richard asked the committee to divert the $ 25, 000 intended for Omo to new excavations to be conducted under his leadership at Koobi Fora.

The scores of Iron Age and Roman coinage and artefact discoveries, and excavations by the Dyfed Archaeological Trust under the direction of Heather James at Carmarthen ( Maridunum ) in the 1980s point convincingly to significant Roman penetration to this westernmost part of Wales.

Further excavations were carried out under Niall Sharples, which added to an understanding of the site and repaired damage caused in part by the large number of visitors.

Between 1985 and 1986 further excavations under Niall Sharples were prompted by the hill fort's deteriorating condition, partly caused by the large number of visitors to the site.

Several years later, the National Institute of Anthropology and History ( INAH ) began extensive architectural excavations and consolidation under the direction of archaeologist Carlos Peraza Lope.

His nephew Joseph Déchelette, author of a famous Manuel d ' Archéologie continued the excavations between 1897 and 1907

In fact, aerial and electromagnetic prospecting is made impossible by the vegetation that that reforested the mountain since the end of grazing and the excavations of Joseph Déchelette and the nature of the subsoil.

In the 20th century the Belgian academy at Rome carried out excavations at the site, under the direction of Joseph Mertens.

After excavations in the Chapel at St. Peter failed to produce any results, the Bernauer biographer Felix Joseph Lipowsky had the Carmelite cloister grounds searched in 1897 for evidence of her grave.

Remains of three temple groups surrounded by an enclosure wall were located during the excavations of W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1893-1894, and later, by Raymond Weill and Adolphe Joseph Reinach in 1910-1911.

" Louise Mitchell Joseph, speaking on behalf of the Eastern Caribbean Coalition of Environmental Awareness stated that there was no documented history of whaling in the islands, and that " there have been many archaeological excavations conducted, and there was no evidence found whatsoever of whale hunting by aboriginal peoples.

* 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

He went on to begin further excavations at the royal cemetery of Kota Tinggi, and the jungle city of Syong Penang.

Nevertheless the first excavations did not begin until the summer of 1914, and were soon interrupted by the First World War.

Also, a grant was provided to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, which owned the property at the Bridge's southern terminus, to begin archeological excavations of the Michilimackinac ruins.

Regular seasonal occupation or permanent settlements begin to be seen in excavations.

In November 1884, Petrie arrived in Egypt to begin his excavations.

* Major excavations begin at Avebury by Alexander Keiller ( continue until 1939 ).

* Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm Høje.

Almost all of the coal in the Powder River Basin is federally owned and further mine expansions will require a series of federal and state approvals, as well as large investments in additional mine equipment to begin the excavations.

* International excavations of the Middle Stone Age occupation cave sites at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay in South Africa begin.

* National Museum of Korea and related institutions begin archaeological excavations at Songguk-ri, a prehistoric village that serves as the type-site for the material culture of the Middle Mumun Pottery Period in Korea ( excavations continue periodically until late 1990s ).

* National Institute of Anthropology and History excavations at Maya site of Coba begin under direction of Carlos Navarrete.

* New excavations at Viroconium ( Wroxeter ) in England begin ( continue to 1927 ).

* Large-scale, wide-scope horizontal excavations begin at Daepyeong, a large Mumun Pottery Period settlement in Korea ( continued until early 2000 ).

* First excavations at Samaria begin by a Harvard expedition.

* Ebla excavations by the University of Rome La Sapienza directed by Paolo Matthiae begin

* New excavations at Viroconium ( Wroxeter ) in England begin.

* Large scale excavations begin at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China under Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.

* The first excavations begin at Yinxu, China led by Li Chi of the Chinese Institute of History and Philosophy.

* New excavations at Viroconium ( Wroxeter ) in England begin ( continue to 1937 ).