Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

Excavations in the Antigua Guatemala Urías and Rucal, have yielded stratified materials from the Early and Middle Preclassic periods ( 2000 BC to 400 BC ).

Excavations at Mathura revealed many Jain statues from the time of the Kushan Empire.

Excavations in Alby, Sweden, adjacent to the Stora Alvaret have yielded elk antlers in wooden hut remains from 6000 BC, indicating some of the earliest elk hunting in northern Europe.

Excavations in 1997-98 revealed remains dating from the Roman, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods.

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 were also made below the royal tombs layer: a-thick layer of alluvial clay covered the remains of earlier habitation, including pottery from the Ubaid period, the first stage of settlement in southern Mesopotamia.

Excavations found imported fabrics from England, Byzantium, Persia and central Asia.

Excavations have unearthed a Muslim necropolis and a mosque from the 12th century next to a Norman castle.

* Open Context, " Petra Great Temple Excavations ( Archaeological Data )", Open Context Publication of Archaeological Data from the 1993-2006 Brown University Excavations at the Great Temple of Petra, Jordan

Excavations at Llanmaes, Vale of Glamorgan, indicate a settlement and " feasting site " occupied from the Late Bronze Age until the Roman occupation.

Excavations suggest that all the male children from the wealthier families of Mesopotamia were educated.

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

Excavations have revealed settlements in the area dating from the Early Neolithic, possibly Mesolithic periods.

Excavations during the mid 19th century revealed a Norman stone pillar and a number of coffins from the period.

Excavations at Tell al-Rimah have revealed brick domical vaults from about 2000 BC.

Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hillfort dating from the early 4th century BC.

It has been suggested that this is an earlier 15th-century structure, dating from the reign of James I. Excavations within this building in 1998 revealed burials, suggesting that this may have been the site of a church or chapel.

Excavations by the Dubai Museum in the region of Al-Jumayra ( Jumeirah ) found several artifacts from the Umayyad period.

Excavations begun in 1989 at Faraglioni have unearthed what was a large prehistoric village dating from the 14th to the 13th century BC.

Excavations yielded discoveries of brick wall structures, precious metals and pottery from southern Cambodia and Vietnam.

Excavations of this monument have produced Roman artifacts dating from the 1st-3rd centuries.

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 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 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 are currently underway, and if the so far presented estimates hold true, the site would be the only pre-glacial ( Neanderthal ) site so far discovered in the Nordic Countries, and it is approximately 125, 000 years old.

Excavations at thé site of Sinthiou Bara, near Matam, have proved particularly fruitful.

Excavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known " Minoan " site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture.

Excavations at the site of Gran Dolina, in the Atapuerca Mountains, Spain, 2008

* Excavations web site ( in Turkish )

Excavations on the site conducted in 1910 identified a well and a system of underground channels, as well as some inscriptions dedicated to Jupiter Heliopolitanus, Agatis, and the nymphae furrinae.

Excavations of the site between 1966 and 1969 found pottery and an oven dating back to the 14th or 15th century.

Excavations on this site have shown that there was activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period.

Excavations at the SV-2 archaeological site in the area have recovered several well preserved skeletons of now extinct species dating back to the last ice age.

Excavations revealed approximately 1, 500 skulls in one of the caves near the site, and hundreds of arrowheads on the ramp and at the top of the city wall, indicating the ferocity of the battle.

Excavations in 2006 at St Martin-in-the-Fields revealed a Roman grave, suggesting the site had sacred significance.

Excavations to the west of the church, on what is now the Community Centre site, revealed a 14th century cemetery, which may have been used for victims of the plague, as well as indicting that the area was redeveloped in the late Middle Ages.

Excavations at the site under the supervision of Chinese archaeologists Yang Zhongjian, Pei Wenzhong, and Jia Lanpo uncovered 200 human fossils ( including 6 nearly complete skullcaps ) from more than 40 individual specimens.

Excavations on the site are planned to continue until 2007.

Excavations at the prehistoric site called Terra Amata, at the foot of Mount Boron in Nice, showed that in about 400, 000 B. C.

Excavations uncovered the ruins of buildings, collapsed stones and beams at every site investigated.

Excavations at the site has shown pot sherds dating from the Late Bronze Age, up to and including Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman times.

Excavations at the site were begun in 1910 by the Greek Archaeological Society and definitely confirmed the site as the Pnyx.