Rhyton in the shape of a bull's head, Heraklion Archaeological Museum ; shown here at the Greek pavilion at Expo ' 88

The Ten Thousand in Thrace: An Archaeological and Historical Commenary on Xenophon's Anabasis, Books VI, iii – vi – VIII ( Amsterdam Classical Monographs ; 2 ).

Archaeological excavations on the foundations of the Rose and the Globe in the late twentieth century showed that all the London theatres had individual differences ; yet their common function necessitated a similar general plan.

Archaeological finds have shown that there were Stone Age people in the area ; and that by the Bronze Age the maritime influence was already strong.

Archaeological evidence suggests that many Harrapan houses were laid out to protect from noise and enhance residential privacy ; many also had their own water wells, probably for both sanitary and ritual purposes.

The island was nearly lost to Athens by two attempts of the oligarchic faction to effect a revolution ; on each occasion the popular party ultimately won the day and took a most bloody revenge on its opponents ( 427 BC and 425 BC ). The lion of Menekrates at the Archaeological Museum of CorfuDuring the Sicilian campaigns of Athens Corcyra served as a supply base ; after a third abortive rising of the oligarchs in 410 BC it practically withdrew from the war.

The National Archaeological Museum ( Museo Archeologico Nazionale ) is housed in the Palazzo Ferretti, built in the late Renaissance by Pellegrino Tibaldi ; it preserves frescoes by Federico Zuccari.

* Bender Jørgensen, Lise ; ' Stone-Age Textiles in North Europe ' in Textiles in Northern Archaeology, Textile Symposium in York, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles Monograph 3, NESAT III ; London Archetype Publications, 1990 ; ISBN 1-873132-05-0.

Archaeological evidence in Serbia and Macedonia conclude that the White Serbs may have reached the Balkans earlier, between 550 – 600, as much findings ; fibulae and pottery found at Roman forts, point at Serb characteristics.

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Archaeological excavation has revealed what some Biblical scholars believe to be the ruins of the tower ; archaeologists believe that the remains are.

File: NAMA-Statue of a sleeping Maenad 04. JPG | Statue of a sleeping Maenad, lying on a panther skin spread on a rocky surface ; the type is known as the reclining Hermaphrodite ; Pentelic marble ; found at the south of the Athenian Acropolis ; Hadrianic time ( 117-138 AD ), follows a classical trend in the attic art ; National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

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.

Archaeological evidence proves that they were in Rose's field ; and possibly also across the street ( because of the houses there this was Encampment site with Rose's Farm in background not proven ).

Almost no aboveground vestiges of the ancient city survive in Kadıköy today ; artifacts uncovered at Altıyol and other excavation sites are on display at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC ; a depiction of two soldiers shaking hands can be found on part of a 5th century BC funerary stele on display in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin ( stele SK1708 ) and other funerary steles like the one of the 4th century BC which depicts Thraseas and his wife Euandria handshaking ( see images on the right ).

In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.

During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).

Potter was eclectic in her tastes ; collecting fossils, studying archeological artifacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology.

Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

From the archaeological excavations in the 1970s, it is clear that construction took over most of the site of the earlier temple enclosure and that the Triportico and Rotunda roughly overlapped with the temple building itself ; the excavations indicate that the temple extended at least as far back as the Aedicule, and the temple enclosure would have reached back slightly further.

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.

Kourouniotes ’ s excavations of the altar and surrounding area ( the temenos ) were particularly informative ; he learned that the altar consisted of a raised mound of blackened earth as described by Pausanias.

Perhaps at that time the Varangian warriors were recruited ; their presence is indicated by archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Poznań.

In 1868, however, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann met Frank Calvert, who convinced Schliemann that Troy was at Hissarlik and Schliemann took over Calvert's excavations on property belonging to Calvert ; this claim is now accepted by most scholars.

Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City ; from indigenous bark paper codices ; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; And especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.

Around 1100, a tomb for him was made in Enger ; recent excavations have found that the contents of the tomb are indeed early medieval, but it is impossible to decide whether the body is Widukind's.

As with most foundation myths, this account needs to be taken with a grain of salt ; archeological excavations in the 20th century suggested that the Merovingian Cathedral replaced by Sully was itself a massive structure, with a five-aisled nave and a facade some 36m across.

Also in this period, Palestinian authorities have begun excavations at the Temple Mount, damaging the structural integrity of the site ; see below.

Since the Waqf is granted almost full autonomy on the Islamic holy sites, Israeli archaeologists have been prevented from inspecting the area ; although they have conducted several excavations around the Temple Mount.

* Karl Jakob Weber ( 1712 – 1764 ), Swiss architect and engineer ; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae

The earliest excavations were undertaken by Charles Warren in 1867 ; there have been numerous excavations since and several digs are currently underway.

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.

Before the Turkish invasion there was much archaeological activity there ; one French Mission was excavating at Enkomi, another at Salamis and the Department of Antiquities was busy almost throughout the year with repairs and restorations of monuments and was engaged in excavations at Salamis.

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

Archaeological excavations on the islands indicate sustained pig keeping up to and beyond the 13th century, a situation unique compared to Iceland and Greenland.

Under the direction of the German Archaeological Institute, excavations at Hattusa have been underway since 1907, with interruptions during both wars.

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

Archaeological excavations were first carried out in 1897 by K. Kontopoulos for the Greek Archaeological Service, followed by K. Kourouniotes between 1902 and 1909.

Archaeological excavations have uncovered clove burnt onto the floor of a kitchen, dated to 1700 BCE, at the Mesopotamian site of Terqa, in modern-day Syria.

Archaeological collections arising from excavations and other research by faculty, staff and students are also housed in the museum.

Archaeological excavations reveal traces of strong fortifications dated to the Early Bronze Age.

The Park of Mon Repos is adjacent to the Palaiopolis of Kerkyra, where excavations were conducted by the Greek Archaeological Service in collaboration with the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, and Brown University in the United States.

By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.

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.

Archaeological excavations, such as those at the Cosquer Cave near Marseilles, show that the coast of Provence was inhabited since at least the Paleolithic era.

Archaeological excavations dated the oldest sword in Japan from at least as early as second century B. C.

Archaeological excavations in the Aztec-ruled provinces show that incorporation into the empire had both costs and benefits for provincial peoples.

Archaeological excavations conducted from the 1950s onwards have revealed evidence of sparse settlement by hunter gatherers in the late stone age, followed by a larger population of early iron age settlers.

Archaeological excavations in 1937 and 1979 unearthed what are believed to be the building's foundations.

Archaeological excavations and surveys carried out in Van province indicate that the history of human settlement in this region goes back at least as far as 5000 BC.

Archaeological excavations uncovered impressive prehistoric tombs dating to the 7th millennium BC at the western edge of Eilat, while nearby copper workings and mining operations at Timna Valley are the oldest on earth.

Archaeological excavations throughout Scandinavia have uncovered amulets theorized as depicting valkyries.

Archaeological excavations in the 1950s and 1960s uncovered remains from many periods, in particular, a complex of Crusader fortifications and a Roman theatre.