: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

This theory, which was repeated by later antiquaries, is bolstered, or may have derived from, Cadbury's proximity to the River Cam and towns Queen Camel and West Camel, and remained popular enough to help inspire a large-scale archaeological dig in the 20th century.

While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of an archeology professor ( the cabin's previous inhabitant ), reciting passages from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis ( or " Book of the Dead "), which he has discovered during an archaeological dig.

In the 1970s a stone meteorite was uncovered during an archaeological dig at Danebury Iron Age hillfort, Danebury England.

Accompanied by Agent One, he makes his way through the town and infiltrates a secret archaeological dig site where Helga Von Bulow and her SS Paranormal Division are attempting to acquire a pair of ancient magical tablets from a cursed tomb.

An Archaeology | archaeological dig is in progress.

Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms.

In October 1999, the Islamic Waqf, and the Islamic Movement conducted an illegal dig which inflicted much archaeological damage.

An archaeological dig was carried out on part of the site for the Channel 4 series Time Team in 2009.

In 2004, a scientifically supported archaeological dig at the site failed to turn up any bones.

An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics.

In Series Nine, Madge is mentioned as being on an archaeological dig in Egypt ; in reality Joan Sims had died before filming began.

Actress Joan Sims died in 2001 and the role of Rocky's wife, Madge Darbley-Hardcastle was not recast ; in Series 8 it's mentioned that she's away participating in an Egyptian archaeological dig.

The long delay caused by planning discussions allowed a thorough archaeological dig at the site, which found more than 80, 000 artefacts: see.

An archaeological dig at Shell Mound, north of Cedar Key, found artifacts dating back to 500 BC in the top of the mound.

Industry was home to an archaeological dig in the 1960s Along the banks of the Ohio River between " Barclay's crossing Bridge " and " Merrill ".

It burned in 1865, and was the object of an archaeology | archaeological dig in 1968.

This is in the area where the Bible reports Samson to have lived, and Professor Shlomo Bunimovitz, a co-director of the dig, was reported as saying that the artefact helps " anchor the story in an archaeological setting.

The first archaeological dig in 1954 uncovered the remains of the early settlement, including a workshop area which attracted international interest.

William Buckland, during an archaeological dig at Goat's Hole Cave ; one of the limestone caves between Port Eynon and Rhossili, on the Gower Peninsula, south Wales.

The archaeological dig at Aegina and Bassae in 1811-12 by Cockerell, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, and Karl Haller von Hallerstein had disinterred painted fragments of masonry daubed with impermanent colours.

In 2008, an archaeological dig found that the earliest clear evidence of settlement in Cambridge is the remains of a 3, 500-year-old farmstead discovered on the College site.

Solomon and his team ( dubbed " Veritas ," Latin for " truth ") search for the answers to some of the world's mysteries, a quest began because of the mysterious disappearance of Nikko's mother during an archaeological dig.

One domesticated habanero, which was dated at 8, 500 years old, was found at an archaeological dig in Mexico.

Most scholars adhering to this theory believe from archaeological, anthropological and genetic evidence that the Iberians came from a region farther east in the Mediterranean.

We must, therefore, have a look at the new archaeological material and re-examine the literary and place-name evidence which bears upon the problem.

* Identification of archaeological cultures: the material remains found at dwelling sites, burial grounds, and other places where people left traces of their activity.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Keem BayAchill Archaeological Field School is based at the Achill Archaeology Centre in Dooagh, which has served as a catalyst for a wide array of archaeological investigations on the island.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

Centuries later, the neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus mentioned in his archaeological records that Ishtar's worship in Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, whose shrine was at Sippar — suggesting proximity of Sippar and Agade.

Further archaeological objects found during the excavations are conserved at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia, as well as at the Limassol District Archaeological Museum.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens showing the major archaeological remains

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

E. Chantre in 1894 picked up lustreless ware, like that of Hissariik, in central Phtygia and at Pteria, and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndncus, Sangarius and Halys.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

There is good archaeological evidence for this process and crucibles used to produce brass by cementation have been found on Roman period sites including Xanten and Nidda in Germany, Lyon in France and at a number of sites in Britain.

A number of Islamic writers and the 13th century Italian Marco Polo describe how this was obtained by sublimation from zinc ores and condensed onto clay or iron bars, archaeological examples of which have been identified at Kush in Iran.

* Pot Creek archaeological site

Other nearby Maya archaeological sites include Chaa Creek and Cahal Pech, Buenavista del Cayo, and Naranjo.

The Swift Creek culture was a Middle Woodland period archaeological culture in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee dating to around 100-700 CE.

* Cherry Creek Rockshelter, an archaeological site in Colorado

No historical or archaeological proof of such a man or his voyages has been found in the New or Old World ; however speculation abounds connecting him with certain sites, such as Devil's Backbone, located on the Ohio River at Fourteen Mile Creek near Louisville, Kentucky.

Crow Creek Site, the site of the massacre near Chamberlain, is an archaeological site and a U. S. National Historic Landmark, located at co-ordinates 43 ° 58 ′ 48 ″ N 99 ° 19 ′ 54 ″ W.

Crow Creek is now a well-preserved archaeological site ( Willey 1982 ).

This event, called the Crow Creek Massacre, has raised many questions in the archaeological community, among them being who would have attacked the Crow Creek village and why it was attacked.

The Range Creek Canyon site complex is unambiguously identified with the Fremont culture, and because of its astonishingly pristine state, promises to bring an immense amount of archaeological insight to this hitherto obscure culture.

There are a number of Mayan archaeological sites in the watershed of the Belize River and its tributaries: Mopan River, Macal River and Chaa Creek.

In 1900, one Euro-Canadian settler in the Nose Hill area described the archaeological residue below the cliffs of the coulee by McPherson Creek as a bone bed nine feet thick and an acre in extent.

* Clear Creek ( Utah ), a tributary of the Sevier River noted for its Fremont culture archaeological finds

A pre-inundation archaeological survey of the Center Hill Basin conducted by the Smithsonian Institution located several possible prehistoric village and mound sites, including a platform mound at the mouth of Mine Lick Creek, just upstream from the modern park boundary.

* Opimihaw ( now referred to as Wanuskewin Heritage Park ) is a 58 hectare property with 14 precontact archaeological sites in the Opimihaw Creek valley.