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.

* University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations at Abydos

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

Even Schliemann's first excavations at Hissarlik in the Troad did not excite surprise.

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 ).

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriot pottery have been found during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.

To test his ideas he conducted a couple of excavations at proposed prehistoric observatories in Scotland.

Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

In Denmark, recent archaeological excavations at Lejre, where Scandinavian tradition located the seat of the Scyldings, i. e., Heorot, have revealed that a hall was built in the mid-6th century, exactly the time period of Beowulf.

However, there is evidence of large fires and charred bones from excavations at the site, showing it to have been ritually significant.

The evidence for this assertion is still fairly scanty, though excavations at Dun Bharabhat, Lewis, have supported it.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by A. H. Layard and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh.

Overseas excavations continued and John Turtle Wood discovered the remains of the 4th century BC Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, another Wonder of the Ancient World.

The collection was dramatically enlarged by the excavations of A. H. Layard at the Assyrian sites of Nimrud and Nineveh between 1845 and 1851.

In the 20th century excavations were carried out at Carchemish, Turkey, between 1911 and 1914 and in 1920 by D. G. Hogarth and Leonard Woolley, the latter assisted by T. E. Lawrence.

A group of stone reliefs from the excavations of Max von Oppenheim at Tell Halaf, purchased in 1920.

More excavated material from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935 – 1938, and from Woolley at Alalakh in the years just before and after the Second World War.

The excavations at Yuanmou and later Lantian show early habitation.

Most archaeologists now connect the Xia to excavations at Erlitou in central Henan province, where a bronze smelter from around 2000 BC was unearthed.

The first archaeological excavations of the 1880s were followed by systematic work by the British School at Athens and by Christos Tsountas, who investigated burial sites on several islands in 1898-1899 and coined the term " Cycladic civilization ".

The first large scale excavations took place in Ludza Odukalns Cemetery in Latgale ( 1890-1891 ), where 339 Late Iron Age burials were uncovered.

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.

It is also widely held by scholars that the island was not occupied by humans during the Middle Bronze Age ( 2300 – 1600 ), though researchers have recently suggested that the lack of evidence from this period may only demonstrate the lack of excavations on Chios and the northern Aegean.

), although the rocky ground and dense conurbation make future excavations unlikely.

All around the city of Caen and in the Bessin ( Vierville-sur-Mer, Bénouville, Giverville, Hérouvillette ), excavations have shown numerous Anglo-Saxon jewelry, design elements, settings and weapons.

Herbert E. Balch continued the work from 1904 to 1914, where he led excavations of the entrance passage ( 1904 – 15 ), Witch's Kitchen ( Chamber 1 ) and Hell's Ladder ( 1926 – 1927 ) and the Badger Hole ( 1938 – 1954 ), where Roman coins from the 3rd century were discovered along with Aurignacian flint implements.

* Ernestine S. Elster and Colin Renfrew ( eds ), Prehistoric Sitagroi: excavations in northeast Greece, 1968-1970.

The largest excavations of Arawak pottery have been found around Belmont and Smuggler's Cove on the northwest of Tortola, but many other sites have been found, including at Soper's Hole, Apple Bay, Coxheath, Pockwood Pond, Pleasant Valley, Sage Mountain, Russell Hill ( modern day Road Town ), Pasea, Purcell, Paraquita Bay, Josiah's Bay, Mount Healthy and Cane Garden Bay.

Lapis jewelry has been found at excavations of the Predynastic Egyptian site Naqada ( 3300 – 3100 BC ), and powdered lapis was used as eyeshadow by Cleopatra.

During his career he performed many major excavations within Britain, including that of Roman Verulamium ( modern-day St Albans ), the late Iron Age hill-fort of Maiden Castle, Dorset and Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications in Yorkshire.

Knowledge of Hurrian culture relies on archaeological excavations at sites such as Nuzi and Alalakh as well as on cuneiform tablets, primarily from Hattusa ( Boghazköy ), the capital of the Hittites, whose civilization was greatly influenced by the Hurrians.

Many were for infrastructure, such as bridges, roads and parks, but they also included archeological excavations of significant sites, the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ), and other historic preservation activities.

Major excavations beginning with C. A. Ralegh Radford's work in the 1930s on and around the site of the 12th century castle have revealed that Tintagel headland was the site of a high status Celtic monastery ( according to Ralegh Radford ) or a princely fortress / trading settlement dating to the 5th and 6th centuries ( according to later excavators ), in the period immediately following the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain.

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

While undertaking study and excavations with Filippo Brunelleschi in Rome ( 1404 – 1407 ), work that gained the two men the reputation of treasure seekers, Donatello made a living by working at goldsmiths ' shops.

Considering that Evans was necessarily not very clear on the Neolithic, being primarily interested in the palace, John Davies Evans ( no relation ), whose specialty was the Neolithic of the Aegean, undertook further excavations in pits and trenches over the palace, elucidating the Neolithic.

Built on the cemetery of the primitive village of Gasteiz ( which today can be accessed through the excavations ), the church of Santa Maria collapsed with the fire of 1202, and Alfonso VIII of Castile ( who had conquered the square just 2 years earlier ), ordered to rebuild the city and lift at the site of a former church that was to serve two very different purposes: to save souls and store weapons.

* In the 1985 Contact ( novel ) ( by Carl Sagan ), the character Xi Qiaomu — who had been involved in excavations of the tomb of Emperor Qin during the Cultural Revolution — is visited by a personified alien in the form of the Emperor Qin.

Most of them were collected from the surface during Starkey's excavations, but others were found in Level 1 ( Persian and Greek era ), Level 2 ( period preceding Babylonian conquest by Nebuchadnezzar ), and Level 3 ( period preceding Assyrian conquest by Sennacherib ).

* New Chapters in Greek History ( 1892 ), an account of excavations in Greece and Asia Minor

As the condensed book passed on by the last survivor of Drakeborough and found by Clinton Coot is the framework for the first edition of the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, in Rosa's later story The Lost Charts of Columbus ( 1995 ), the Junior Woodchucks intend to raise funds for excavations at the site of Cleopatra's hidden library in Egypt before it was brought to Byzantium.