Excavations in Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath reveal dog and pig bones which show signs of having been butchered, implying that these animals were part of the residents ' diet.

Excavations have yet to reveal continuous habitation from Roman times, but it is quite likely that a village established itself within the ramparts of the fort following the Roman departure.

Excavations reveal examples based on squares, rectangles and shapes similar to the letter D.

Excavations carried out recently reveal that this Carolingian cathedral had three naves and three apses.

Excavations at Yorgan Tepe, ancient Nuzi, proved to be one of the most important sites for our knowledge about the Hurrians.

Excavations by Essex County Council field archaeological unit at the recent Maltings Lane development discovered evidence of Neolithic occupation of Witham including human remains and several trackways across ancient marsh.

Excavations at Moenjodaro and Harappa – ancient cities of the Indus Valley civilization – have established that the inhabitants used spindles and spun a wide variety of weaving materials.

Excavations in El Mina revealed skeletal remains of ancient wolves, eels, and gazelles, part of the ancient southern port quay, grinding mills, different types of columns, wheels, Bows, and a necropolis from the end of the Hellenistic period.

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 on the ancient raised tel which developed on a natural kurkar hill.

Excavations of the ancient city began in the 1890s and have been conducted since 1964 by the Greek Archaeological Service ( 11th Ephorate of Antiquities ) and the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece.

Excavations throughout the area have revealed large amounts of Greek coins, ancient Zoroastrian temples and several Buddhist stupas.

Excavations of ancient Glanum, at the foot Mont Gaussier near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Excavations conducted there for six months, from Christmas of 1903 to June 1904, for the University of Chicago, by Dr. Edgar James Banks, proved that these mounds covered the site of the ancient city of Adab ( Ud-Nun ), hitherto known only from the Sumerian king list and a brief mention of its name in the introduction to the Hammurabi Code.

Excavations at the ancient site of Baiae show that the city was host to an important region for thermo-mineral bathing in antiquity.

Excavations were carried out on Indur, but with no remains found at the site it was largely ruled out as being ancient Endor.

Excavations of ancient monuments and the collection of antiquities have been taking place for thousands of years.

Excavations in Central Asia have revealed ancient ritual goat-burial that show a religious significance of the goat predominantly in the area ( Sidky 1990, p. 286 ).

Richard Brilliant described Lanciani's Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome as " undiminished in vitality as a study of ancient Roman ruins " ( 1967 ).

Excavations in the intervening time have shown that the arch is aligned with an ancient road that was roughly on the same course as modern Lysikrates street.

Excavations and archeological studies of the cave have led to the discovery of ancient artworks, jugs and pitchers dating back to 12, 000 years ago.

Excavations of the prehistoric art of the Dian civilization of Yunnan have revealed hunting scenes of Caucasoid horsemen in Central Asian clothing.

Excavations near the site of a present day church and monastery, have revealed an early church with two empty tombs, believe to be that of St. Barnabas and Anthemios.

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 show that there were considerable birch woods with birch trees up to 4 to 6 meters high in the area around the inner parts of the Tunuliarfik-and Aniaaq-fjords, the central area of the Eastern settlement, and the hills were grown with grass and willow brushes.

Excavations at nearby Thracian sites have shown uninterrupted occupation from the 7th to the 4th century and close commercial relations with the colony.

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.

Excavations from this archeological site in the 1950s revealed mammoth bones with embedded Clovis points, providing evidence of the hunting activities of Paleo-Indians some 13, 000 years ago.

Excavations at Saint Martin's Square in the centre exposed the foundations of the old Saint Martin's church, which was partly built with Roman waste materials.

Excavations have shown that many of the buildings were richly adorned with wall paintings, floor mosaics and sub-floor hypocausts, demonstrating the wealth of the elite.

Excavations have proven that Adrianou Street is the oldest street in Athens still in continuous use with exactly the same layout since antiquity.

* 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.

Excavations were done simultaneously with the sites of Cenote and Punta Nima.

Excavations of open settlements are rare, but they show that large 3-4 aisled houses built with wooden posts and wall of wattle and daub were common.

Excavations at Mohenjo-daro in what is now Pakistan have unearthed what is believed to be a hypocaust lined with bitumen-coated bricks.

Excavations of a 4th century burial cave in the village unearthed a cross and a piece of glass engraved with a menorah.

Excavations in 2008 to the west at Penwith College found an enclosure ditch and pottery indicating a settlement and, an evolving field system with ditches and interconnecting pits suggesting water management.

Excavations at the Celtiberian strongholds Kontebakom-Bel Botorrita, Sekaisa Segeda, Tiermes complement the grave goods found in Celtiberian cemeteries, where aristocratic tombs of the 6th to 5th centuries give way to warrior tombs with a tendency from the 3rd century for weapons to disappear from grave goods, either indicating an increased urgency for their distribution among living fighters or, as Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio think, the increased urbanization of Celtiberian society.

The later novel Excavations, set in the mid-1950s, deals with the thaw period after Stalin's death as well as with the Danish conquest of Estonia in the Middle Ages, and today considered by several critics as his finest, has not been translated into English yet ; it is however available in German.

The semi-autobiographical novels include Kross ' novel about the ultimate fates of his schoolmates, i. e. The Wikman Boys ( Wikman being based on his alma mater the Westholm Grammar School-both names are of Swedish origin ) a similar sort of novel about his university chums, Mesmer's Circle / Ring ; the novel Excavations which describes Kross ' alter ego Peeter Mirk and his adventures with archaeology, conformism, revolt, compromise and skulduggery after he has returned from the Siberian labour camps and internal exile out there.

Excavations in the 1990s by Nikolaos Stampolidis at Eleutherna in Crete have helped establish more precisely a date and place of origin for the Dame d ' Auxerre, in the region of Eleutherna and Gortyn, with the recovery from gravesites of very similar carved ivory faces and phallic symbols.

Excavations were interrupted in 1914 by World War I and then ended with the Turkish War of Independence.

Excavations of some of these hut sites conducted in 1910 and 1930 found evidence for occupation in the Roman period, with finds including pottery, coins, and a small bronze stag.

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