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.

It came under artillery fire from the three South African brigade groups and was forced to dig in.

Accordingly, strenuous preparations to dig in anti-tank guns were made, artillery fire plans organised and a regiment from 22nd Armoured Brigade was sent to reinforce 2nd Armoured Brigade.

The next day, Saturday, was a disaster for England: Gooch was out in the first over of the day, and although Boycott and Brearley then attempted to dig in, they were both out before lunch.

" The first event was the refinement of stratigraphic techniques that Kathleen Kenyon's dig at Jericho catalyzed.

A parody of a track on the album was that by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 song " We Are Normal ", which featured a line from " The Red Telephone ", viz ' We are normal and we want our freedom / We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon '.

During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.

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

* The dig of Cape Manuel: the Neolithic deposit Manueline Dakar was discovered in 1940.

Gowland also took the opportunity to further excavate the monument in what was the most scientific dig to date, revealing more about the erection of the stones than the previous 100 years of work had done.

Now that the restriction of the Ottoman firman was removed, there was a great rush on the part of all the other archaeologists to obtain first permission to dig from the new Cretan government.

The area has been occupied since the 10th century ( although recently, remains of houses dating back to the 2nd century AD were discovered during a dig near the Oldehove ), and was granted a town charter in 1435.

The last dig was in 2002.

NASA Ames was a partner on the Mars Phoenix, a Mars Scout Program mission to send a high-latitude lander to Mars, deployed a robotic arm to dig trenches up to 1. 6 feet ( one half meter ) into the layers of water ice and analyzing the soil composition.

On 4 September the 719th infantry division began to dig in along the Albert Canal and was soon joined by forces under the command of Lieutenant General Kurt Chill.

During the dig, the marble grave marker of Robert Livermore was located in the original tile floor of the church.

Although the dig was approved by the police, it generated protests from archaeologists.

It was found at the beginning of the 14th century when the Virgin appeared to a humble shepherd and ordered him to dig at the site of the apparition.

Upon Smith's return, Miami posted a winning record in February and March, but it was not enough to dig themselves out of the 13 – 27 hole they began in.

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

International media covered the dig, which began April 30, 1999, at the Plaza de Ramales, one block from the Royal Palace, because that is where the medieval Church of San Juan stood until it was wrecked during the last century.

* The dig of Khant: the Khanty creek, located in the north near Kayar in the lower valley of the Senegal River, gave its name to a Neolithic industry which mainly uses bone and wood.

Wombats use their rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws to dig extensive burrow systems ; they are mainly crepuscular and nocturnal.

In 1966 and 1968, in a dig which focused mainly on the " Solar Shrine ",

As in the siege of Carcassonne, defenders worked to prevent sapping by dumping anything they had down on attackers who tried to dig under the wall.

Other archaeologists responsible for the dig were Gustav Hirschfeld, George Treu, Adolf Furtwängler ( who worked alongside architects ), A. Boetticher, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, and Richard Borrmann.

Projects in the village began in 2001 and the community worked together to dig a well with dedicated bucket and windlass.

One hundred and two shovels worked in that decade-long dig.

In 1937, as the assistant of Dr. Franz Weidenreich, she worked on reconstructing the skull of the Peking Man, a Homo erectus hominid, on a paleontological dig in China.

Ahmad Fakhry ( أحمد فخريArabic ) ( 1905 – 1973 ) was an Egyptian archaeologist who worked in the Western desert of Egypt ( including in 1940 dig at El Haiz, and then at Siwa ), and also in the necropolis at Dahshur.

The dig revealed by far the largest known fortification of the period, with Mediterranean artifacts ( representing extensive trade ) and Saxon artifacts.

Without access to cheap Indian saltpeter ( controlled by the British ), for hundreds of years France had relied on saltpetermen with royal warrants, the droit de fouille or " right to dig ", to seize nitrous-containing soil and demolished walls of barnyards, without compensation to the owners.

Since the creation of the original LambdaMOO map, many users have expanded the MOO by making additional rooms with the command "@ dig.

A fictional journal written by La Malinche and discovered in an archeological dig is a central element in a 2008 adventure novel The Treasure of La Malinche by Jeffry S. Hepple.

Stuyvesant prepared against an attack by ordering the citizens to dig a ditch from the North River to the East River and to erect a fortification.

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.

They would then dig a trench towards the town in a zigzag pattern so that it could not be enfiladed by defending fire.

Sandpits encourage the imagination and creativity of children by providing materials and space to build structures such as sandcastles ; use toy trucks, shovels, and buckets to move the sand around ; dig holes and bury objects, etc.

When villages in Africa and Scotland are wiped out by a plague of madness, Solo and Kuryakin dig up a graveyard and a monster named Golgotha.

He is enlisted in this role by his aunts to bury their victims ' bodies in the cellar by asking him to dig " another lock for the Panama Canal ", then telling him someone has died of yellow fever and needs to be buried.

Executed by the 5 offensive players not directly attacking the ball, players move to assigned positions around the attacker to dig up any ball that deflects off the block back in to their own court.

The family hired workmen to dig it out in November that year, an event covered by the local press on 9 November, who identified the fossil as a crocodile.

On January 18, panicked by reports that the burial of the three bodies had been observed, members of the execution team went to dig up the bodies and move them to a place near the border with Rhodesia for reburial.

These investigations tended to dig out old forgotten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the Truman Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigations caused the changes.

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.

The bandits, likewise, were given little more than a " last cigarette " by the army units after capture, even having to dig their own graves first.

In this sense, an excavation may sometimes be referred to as a " dig " by those who participate, this being a concise, if oversimplified description of the process.