Excavations were underway in Babylon, Uruk, Assur, Miletus, Priene and Egypt, and objects from these sites could not be properly displayed within the existing German museum system.

Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.

Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca 2300 BC.

Excavations in 1861 indicated a rectangular central chamber surrounded by five smaller chambers.

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

Excavations of prehistoric sites by Louis Dupree and others suggest that early humans were living in what is now Afghanistan at least 50, 000 years ago, and that farming communities in Afghanistan were among the earliest in the world.

In Harappa Excavations, 1986-1990: A multidisciplinary approach to Second Millennium urbanism, edited by Richard H. Meadow: 29-59.

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

* Steiner, Margreet L. ( 2001 ), Excavations by Kathleen M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961 – 1967, Volume III — The Settlement in the Bronze and Iron Ages, London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.

* Stonehenge 20th Century Excavations Databases An English Heritage commissioned report by Wessex Archaeology on the 20th century excavations.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.

Excavations undertaken by the Monmouth Archaeological Society on sites along Monnow Street have uncovered a wealth of information about the early history of the town.

Excavations at Mantineia in Arcadia have brought to light the base of a group of Leto, Apollo and Artemis by Praxiteles.

Excavations at the Ciudadela were carried out in the 1920s, supervised by Manuel Gamio.

Excavations began in the anterior part, which is formed by a large courtyard of about 15 sq metres, opening on the south by a large door with reliefs supplying the names of the pharaoh and the epithets of Ptah.

* 2003 to 2004: Excavations by a combined Russian-Belgian mission in the great wall north of Memphis.

* Excavations of the ruins of Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, by Ludwig Borchardt of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft ( continues to 1914 ).

* Excavations resume at Qatna, in Syria, by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft.

* Excavations at Assur are continued by a team from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft led initially by Robert Koldewey ( continue until 1913 ).

* Excavations near Bogazköy by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin ( continued until 1999 ).

* Excavations at Urkesh by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft.

* Excavations at Uruk by Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin ( continue to 1913 ).

Excavations at Aksum: An account of research at the ancient Ethiopian capital directed in 1972-74 by the late Dr Nevill Chittick London: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989 ISBN 0-500-97008-4

Excavations were carried out at Lindos in the years 1900 to 1914 by the Carlsberg Institute of Denmark, directed by K. F.

He expresses some valid points, but it became obvious during the Swedish Excavations at Tell Abu al-Kharaz 1989 to 2008 ( and still going on ) which are directed by Peter M. Fischer that only distinct archaeological evidence could support his theory.

* Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli

* Excavations at Nippur sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago begin directed by Richard C. Haines.

* Stephen G. Miller ( with contributions by Robert C. Knapp and David Chamberlain ), Excavations at Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

* Mazar, A. and Mullins, Robert ( eds ), Excavations at Tel Beth Shean 1989-1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata in Area R, Jerusalem: IES / HUJ, 2007.

Excavations began in 1900 by Friedrich Delitzsch, and were continued in 1903-1913 by a team from the German Oriental Society led initially by Robert Koldewey and later by Walter Andrae.

* Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989 – 1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Afe Strata in Area R ( editor with Robert Mullins ).

Excavations recommenced between 1950 and 1961 under Louis Robert, and a series of important Roman dedicated monuments came to light, as well as the famous Doric Temple of Apollo, seat of the oracle, in its final grand though uncompleted Hellenistic phase, 3rd century BCE.

* Excavations at Qatna by Robert du Mesnil du Boisson begin

* Excavations at Alalakh, Turkey, conducted by Leonard Woolley, begin ( continue until 1949, interrupted by World War II ).

* Excavations at Nagar, Syria, conducted by Max Mallowan, begin ( continue until 1938 ).

* Excavations begin at the neolithic site of Hyrax Hill, Kenya, by Mary Leakey ( continues until 1938 ).

* Excavations at Jericho led by Kathleen Kenyon begin ( continues to 1958 ).

* Excavations at Shechem by a German team begin.

* May 8 – Excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base, near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes – the first two aircraft built by that company – supposedly buried there in 1919.

* Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.

* Excavations at Skara Brae under D. V. Clarke begin.

* Excavations of Nippur sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania begin ( continues through 1900 ).

* Excavations begin at Amri ( completed in 1962 ).

* Excavations at Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, England, by Martin Biddle begin ( completed in 1960 ).

* Excavations at Troy begin by team from the University of Tübingen and the University of Cincinnati under the direction of Professor Manfred Korfmann.

* Excavations in Gibraltar by Dorothy Garrod begin ( continue to 1926 ).

* Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Sterling begin.

* Excavations at Arikamedu ( Podouké ) by the Société de l ' histoire de l ' Inde française begin ( continue to 1945 ).

* Excavations of the Neolithic settlement at Argissa Magoula in Thessaly by Vladimir Milojčić of the University of Heidelberg begin ( continue to 1958 ).

* Excavations of the Danubian Neolithic settlement at Bylany in Bohemia begin.

* Excavations at Teppe Hasanlu begin ( continue to 1974 ).

* Excavations at Beit She ' an by the University of Pennsylvania begin ( continue to 1933 ).

* Excavations of the henge at Balfarg in Scotland, led by Roger Mercer, begin.

* Excavations at Mezhirich, Ukraine, by I. G. Pidoplichko begin ( continue to 1974 ).