Most notable are the 1899 expeditions in Egypt by George A. Reisner and in Peru by archaeologist Max Uhle.

Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age.

* 1281 – Pope Martin IV authorizes the Ninth Crusade against the newly re-established Byzantine Empire in Constantinople ; French and Venetian expeditions set out toward Constantinople but are forced to turn back in the following year.

* Pope Martin IV authorizes a Crusade against the newly re-established Byzantine Empire in Constantinople ; French and Venetian expeditions set out toward Constantinople but are forced to turn back in the following year.

Vlad Drakov, the Dark Lord of Falkovnia whose military expeditions are doomed to constant failure, seems even to be totally oblivious of any non-mortal factors in his repeated defeats.

Research expeditions are located in Quito, Ecuador, Tucson, Arizona and San Jose, Costa Rica.

There are indications that he may have led expeditions as far as Kashgar in Chinese Turkestan, leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 200 BC.

A collection of artefacts from his African expeditions are at Fort Frederick ( Kingston ) and some his diaries are preserved in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia ; others are lost.

Evidence of occupation dating back 1800 years has been confirmed through archaeological expeditions done in the 1930s and the 1970s around the burial mounds that are located on the sand ridges in the eastern part of the county.

The Sherpa people of Nepal have established a reputation as mountaineering porters, and are considered indispensable for the highest Himalayan expeditions.

The Viking expeditions to Orkney are recorded in detail in the 11th century Orkneyinga sagas and later texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar.

Huts built by Scott's and Shackleton's expeditions are still standing on the island, preserved as historical sites.

Rafts can carry large loads, so they are often used for expeditions.

The island can only be reached in the cloudberry season, when picking expeditions are organized from Burøysund.

Common motifs also include voyages and expeditions to other planets, and dystopias, while utopias are rare.

Commercial tours are available and these expeditions depart from the border town of Vioolsdrif.

During his expeditions into the Libyan Desert, Bagnold had been fascinated by the shapes of the sand dunes, and after returning to England he built a wind tunnel and conducted the experiments which are the basis of the book.

After this time, the young are quickly taught how to hunt through expeditions with their parents and are considered independent soon after.

In lower years they begin with expeditions that are accompanied by staff and in later years with an unaccompanied expedition where pupils will have to plan and prepare for the trip themselves.

Some houses will go on house expeditions and there are many inter-house competitions that take place in the year.

During their lifetimes these two " sons of Harald " are known to have launched at least two major expeditions against Ireland, and the latter is recorded as having won " the battle of Man " in 987.

The expeditions to inland Brazil are divided into two types: the entradas and the bandeiras.

Scientific expeditions in 1996 and 2006 described the lagoon and surrounding waters of Diego Garcia, along with the rest of the Chagos Archipelago, as " exceptionally unpolluted " and " pristine ".

Although European navigators visited the islands and explored their coastlines thereafter, little was known of the inhabitants by Europeans until the 1870s, when Russian anthropologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai made a number of expeditions to New Guinea, spending several years living among native tribes, and described their way of life in a comprehensive treatise.

* A second theory concerns the fact that Adriaen Block, during his expeditions in the 1610s, passed by Aquidneck, described in a 1625 account of his travels as " an island of reddish appearance " ( in 17th-century Dutch, " een rodlich Eylande ").

It has long been generally agreed that by several of his most costly expeditions nothing was really won but glory: the policy of diversionary attacks on places like Rochefort was memorably described as ' breaking windows with gold guineas '.

Reports from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike and in 1819 by Major Stephen Long described the Great Plains as " unfit for human habitation " and as " The Great American Desert ".

Strongyloidiasis was first described in the nineteenth century in French soldiers returning home from expeditions in IndoChina.

Early expeditions into the land north of Detroit described the area as having " extreme sterility and barrenness ".

Beebe described his two expeditions on board the Zaca in his books Zaca Venture and The Book of Bays, in which he emphasized his concern for threatened habitats and his dismay at human destruction.

The common name honors the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, who described the species from specimens collected on expeditions to the Pacific during the early 19th century.

Cope's companion Charles Sternberg described the lack of water and good food available to Cope and his helpers on these expeditions.

His expeditions to the Yenisey tundra of Siberia were described in his two books, Siberia in Europe ( 1880 ) and Siberia in Asia ( 1882 ), which were combined in the posthumous publication The Birds of Siberia ( 1901 ).

The two expeditions are described in two volumes " Två somrar i Norra Ishavet " ( in Swedish ).

In 1989 the BBC Radio 4 series Last Chance to See and the subsequent book ( 1990 ) described eight expeditions by Carwardine and writer Douglas Adams to find and report on some of the most endangered species around the world.

As a result of one of his dredging expeditions, Sars described the first living stalked crinoid to be described, Rhizocrinus lofotensis.

Finally all these attempts were abandoned and, as more and more species were described as a result of several scientific expeditions, the classification of the Pteropoda into Thecosomata and Gymnosomata was generally adopted.

Prior to the 20th century, and indeed into its early decades, the pace of discovery of new species was fast ; during this period, with numerous collecting expeditions into species-rich areas not previously visited by western ornithologists, up to several hundred new species per decade were being described.

A careful study of the original reports, maps and photographs, and comparison with materials from subsequent expeditions such as the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947, and the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1960, has led to the conclusion that the range described comprises at least the core of Ellsworth's Eternity Range and appropriately commemorates his discovery.

During the 1850s a number of artists found gainful employment as draftsmen attached to expeditions sent to map the Pacific coastline and the border between California and Mexico ( as well as plot practical railroad routes ); many of the drawings were reproduced as lithographs in the expedition reports.

Persistent reports by the natives of creatures resembling dinosaurs have motivated a number of recent expeditions into the area of the northern tributaries of the Ogooué and the swamps on the western side of the Congo River.

Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).

The reports that he made in the course of his expeditions, however, were quite detailed and contributed much to the knowledge of the area and the times for both contemporary and later readers.

The reports of his expeditions along the Baja California peninsula are credited with being influential in the perpetuation of the 17th century cartographic misconception of the existence of the Island of California.

Maps based on recent exploration reports were always, when possible, complemented with route maps from previous expeditions.

In 1849 he made an investigation of the flora of the Mont-Blanc chain of the Alps ; in 1851 he explored those of Northern Europe, Lapland, and Finland ; the reports of theses two expeditions appeared respectively in 1850 and 1854.

Governor Velazquez, the highest Spanish authority in the Americas, called for Cortés to lead an expedition into Mexico after reports from a few previous expeditions to Yucatán caught the interest of the Spanish in Cuba.

Brown and James Sawkins arrived in Georgetown in 1867 and did some of their mapping and preparation of geological reports together, some in separate expeditions, but Sawkins had taken a break from his work when Brown came upon Kaieteur.