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.

Then Heinrich Schliemann popularized his excavations at Hissarlik, which he and others believed to be Troy, and of the Mycenaean cities of Greece.

This site was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in 1884-1885, and is the subject of ongoing excavations by the German Archaeological Institute at Athens and the University of Heidelberg.

The most important excavations began in 1905 under the direction of the Germans Heinrich Kohl and Carl Watzinger.

In 1940, excavations were resumed under the patronage of Heinrich Himmler by the SS-Ahnenerbe under the supervision of Hauptsturmführer Hans Schleif, a classical archaeologist who was to excavate in Olympia, Greece as well.

The first modern and scientific excavations took place under the guidance of retired army chief of staff of the Württemberg army, General Eduard von Kallee and by Major Heinrich Steimle in the years 1886 to 1888, i. e. before the Empire-Limes-Commission ( Reichslimeskommision ) had been set up.

In 1880-1886, Heinrich Schliemann's excavations ( H. Schliemann, Orchomenos, Leipzig 1881 ) revealed the tholos tomb he called the " Tomb of Minyas ", a Mycenaean monument that equalled the " Tomb of Atreus " at Mycenae itself.

In 1903-1905, a Bavarian archaeological mission under Heinrich Bulle and Adolf Furtwängler conducted successful excavations at the site.

He is famous for his work on Bronze Age sites around the Mediterranean, such as Tiryns and Hisarlik ( the site of the legendary city of Troy ) where he continued Heinrich Schliemann's excavations.

He began exploratory excavations on the mound at Hisarlik ( the site of the ancient city of Troy ), seven years before the arrival of Heinrich Schliemann.

* Heinrich Schliemann begins his excavations of Troy.

Schliemann was at first skeptical about the identification of Hissarlik with Troy but was persuaded by Calvert and took over Calvert's excavations on the eastern half of the Hissarlik site, which was on Calvert's property.

The frieze circling the outside of the mausoleum shows Schliemann conducting the excavations at Mycenae and other sites.

However, Schliemann could not rely on the experience of others and was unaware of the damage his excavations could cause.

Schliemann was at first skeptical about the identification of Hissarlik with Troy, but was persuaded by Calvert and took over Calvert's excavations on the eastern half of the Hissarlik site, which was on Calvert's property.

After Schliemann's death in 1890, his widow hired Dörpfeld to continue where Schliemann had stopped his excavations of Troy.

Dörpfeld however remains known as one who brought much order and integrity into archaeology, and one who saved many archaeological sites from Schliemann ’ s reckless excavations.

* The archeology of Hissarlik – History of the excavations of Troy conducted by Schliemann, Dörpfeld, and Blegen.

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 ".

In search of Birka, National Antiquarian Johan Hadorph was the first to attempt excavations on Björkö in the late 17th century.

The majority of crannog excavations were poorly conducted ( by modern standards ) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by early antiquarians, or were indeed purely accidental finds as lochs were drained during the improvements to increase usable farmland or pasture.

Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BC, which show that Hera at Samos was not merely a local Greek goddess of the Aegean: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, testimony to the reputation which this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed and to the large influx of pilgrims.

The excavations of Kourouniotes in 1903 of the altar and its nearby temenos determined definite cult activity at the Lykaion altar from the late 7th century b. c. e, including animals bones, miniature tripods knives, and statuettes of Zeus holding an eagle and a lightning bolt.

Margaret Murray accompanied the renowned Egyptologist Sir William Flinders Petrie, on several archaeological excavations in Egypt and Palestine during the late 1890s.

The first attested civilized use is from excavations at Tell Brak dated the late fifth millennia.

Recently, an inscription dating to the late 10th / early 9th centuries BC with two names, very similar to one of the suggested etymologies of the popular Philistine name Goliath ( Lydian Alyattes, or perhaps Greek Kalliades ) was found in the excavations at Gath.

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.

Unlike Sima Qian's list of Shang Dynasty kings, which is closely matched by oracle bones from late in that period, records of Xia rulers have not yet been found in archeological excavations.

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.

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.

In the late 17th century Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora ( 1645 – 1700 ) did some excavations around the Pyramid of the Sun.

Archeological excavations have found a sanctuary area that dates back to the first Iron Age ( IX century ) and was continuously active til late antiquity ( at least IV century CE ).

Since the early excavations at Memphis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, artefacts have been uncovered in different parts of the city that indicate the presence of a building dedicated to the worship of the sun disc.

In late October 2009, a team of archaeologists and historians from the University of Granada began excavations outside Alfácar.

The plans had been drawn up in late 1939, and by January 1940 the first excavations were being made.

In the late 19th century, excavations in the area revealed that the monument stood at the edge of a quadrangular enclosure.

Recent site excavations yielded rusted cannonballs and other late 19th and early 20th century paraphernalia in caverns dug deep beneath the former Fort.

As a result of excavations in the late 19th century, archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani concluded that Agrippa's Pantheon was oriented so that it faced south, in contrast with the current layout that faces northwards, and that it had a shortened T-shaped plan with the entrance at the base of the " T ".

Ceramic evidence discovered in recent excavations has revealed that the pedestal was set up about 200 BC, though some scholars still date it as early as 250 BC or as late as 180.

Horn offers as early examples Abbot Gundeland's " Altenmünster " of Lorsch abbey ( 765-74 ), as revealed in the excavations by Frederich Behn ; Lorsch was adapted without substantial alteration from a Frankish nobleman's villa rustica, in a tradition unbroken from late Roman times.

In the 3rd century AD an eastern Germanic settlement existed here, but excavations have proved that the region was already inhabited as early as the late Stone Age.

In the late 19th century, excavations for a canal in Alexandria ( south-east of the city ) uncovered evidence of Aboriginal settlement in that area estimated to date back at least 7000 years ; more recent evidence discovered in caves near Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains, west of the city, indicates Aboriginal occupation of that region dating back at least 20, 000 years.

When she began her excavations in the late 1930s, Kathleen Kenyon initially thought that the overall site was that of the town forum ( of which the basilica would have formed a part ).