Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.

Excavations are not just carried out to entertain viewers.

Excavations at the Ciudadela were carried out in the 1920s, supervised by Manuel Gamio.

Excavations were carried out on the ancient raised tel which developed on a natural kurkar hill.

Excavations were carried out at Lindos in the years 1900 to 1914 by the Carlsberg Institute of Denmark, directed by K. F.

Excavations carried out at the site in July and August 2003 revealed evidence from four main settlement periods: First Temple ( 800 – 600 BCE ), Second Temple ( 100 CE ), Byzantine and Ottoman.

Excavations in the Inner and Outer Towns were carried out by a joint Turco-Italian team from the Universities of Bologna, Gaziantep and Istanbul under the direction of Professor Nicolò Marchetti.

Excavations from 2006 to 2007, carried out adjacent to and just south of Tel Shiloh, exposed elaborate mosaic floors as well as several Greek inscriptions, one explicitly referring to the site as the " village of Shiloh ".

Excavations can currently not be carried out due to political events.

Excavations carried out before the flooding of Chew Valley Lake also uncovered Roman remains, indicating agricultural and industrial activity from the second half of the 1st century until the 3rd century AD.

Excavations carried out jointly by the Universities of Leicester, Newport and Southampton University of Southampton in 2000 revealed the socket holes for the other stones which were tightly placed close to Adam.

Excavations carried out prior to construction of park facilities uncovered a possible habitation area at Mound 11 and a large number of 19th-century artifacts.

Excavations were carried out on Indur, but with no remains found at the site it was largely ruled out as being ancient Endor.

Excavations carried on in 1891 led to the discovery of the northern portion of the western town wall, which in one section served at the same time as an embankment against floods — it was apparently more conspicuous in the time of Philipp Cluver, ( Sicilia antiqua, Leiden, 1619 ) p. 133 — of an extensive necropolis, about 1500 tombs of which have been explored, and of a deposit of votive objects from a temple.

Excavations carried out at Pattanam from 2005 provided evidence that the maritime trade between Kerala and the Mediterranean ports existed even before 500 BC or earlier.

Excavations carried out recently reveal that this Carolingian cathedral had three naves and three apses.

* Previous excavations: Excavations carried out before the middle of the 20th century are notoriously poorly documented.

Excavations were carried out between 1960 and 1976 by a team of French archaeologists.

Excavations were carried out there between 1988 and 2002.

Excavations were carried out at Southwick in 1996 and the results were published in a paper in Northamptonshire Archaeology.

Excavations at the site carried out by Leakey and Simpson revealed that they had located stone artifacts which were dated 100, 000 years or older suggesting a human presence in North America much earlier than estimated.

Excavations carried out over five seasons between 1978 and 1985 have shown that Tell el-Maskhuta dates only to the end of the 7th century, and may have been built by Pharaoh Necho II, possibly as part of his uncompleted canal building project from the Nile to the Gulf of Suez.

Excavations are presently carried on under the direction of Dr. Şengül Aydıngün, an associate Professor of the Kocaeli University.

Excavations carried out in 1991 showed that the mound had been raised as a series of level terraces with retaining walls made of nearly intact amphorae filled with shards to anchor them in place.

The semi-autobiographical novels include Kross ' novel about the ultimate fates of his schoolmates, i. e. The Wikman Boys ( Wikman being based on his alma mater the Westholm Grammar School-both names are of Swedish origin ) a similar sort of novel about his university chums, Mesmer's Circle / Ring ; the novel Excavations which describes Kross ' alter ego Peeter Mirk and his adventures with archaeology, conformism, revolt, compromise and skulduggery after he has returned from the Siberian labour camps and internal exile out there.

Excavations in 1972 on the west side of the hill revealed the remains of a large rectangular structure ( 15m x 41 m ) with 2m thick walls made out of rubble stone with ashlar facing.

Excavations at the site of the column of Diocletian in 1944 yielded the foundation deposits of the Temple of Serapis.

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 at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

Excavations show that there were considerable birch woods with birch trees up to 4 to 6 meters high in the area around the inner parts of the Tunuliarfik-and Aniaaq-fjords, the central area of the Eastern settlement, and the hills were grown with grass and willow brushes.

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

Excavations began in the anterior part, which is formed by a large courtyard of about 15 sq metres, opening on the south by a large door with reliefs supplying the names of the pharaoh and the epithets of Ptah.

Excavations from this archeological site in the 1950s revealed mammoth bones with embedded Clovis points, providing evidence of the hunting activities of Paleo-Indians some 13, 000 years ago.

Excavations at Saint Martin's Square in the centre exposed the foundations of the old Saint Martin's church, which was partly built with Roman waste materials.

Excavations have shown that many of the buildings were richly adorned with wall paintings, floor mosaics and sub-floor hypocausts, demonstrating the wealth of the elite.

Excavations have proven that Adrianou Street is the oldest street in Athens still in continuous use with exactly the same layout since antiquity.

* Stephen G. Miller ( with contributions by Robert C. Knapp and David Chamberlain ), Excavations at Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

Excavations were done simultaneously with the sites of Cenote and Punta Nima.

Excavations of open settlements are rare, but they show that large 3-4 aisled houses built with wooden posts and wall of wattle and daub were common.

Excavations at Mohenjo-daro in what is now Pakistan have unearthed what is believed to be a hypocaust lined with bitumen-coated bricks.

Excavations of a 4th century burial cave in the village unearthed a cross and a piece of glass engraved with a menorah.

Excavations in 2008 to the west at Penwith College found an enclosure ditch and pottery indicating a settlement and, an evolving field system with ditches and interconnecting pits suggesting water management.

Excavations at the Celtiberian strongholds Kontebakom-Bel Botorrita, Sekaisa Segeda, Tiermes complement the grave goods found in Celtiberian cemeteries, where aristocratic tombs of the 6th to 5th centuries give way to warrior tombs with a tendency from the 3rd century for weapons to disappear from grave goods, either indicating an increased urgency for their distribution among living fighters or, as Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio think, the increased urbanization of Celtiberian society.

The later novel Excavations, set in the mid-1950s, deals with the thaw period after Stalin's death as well as with the Danish conquest of Estonia in the Middle Ages, and today considered by several critics as his finest, has not been translated into English yet ; it is however available in German.

Excavations in the 1990s by Nikolaos Stampolidis at Eleutherna in Crete have helped establish more precisely a date and place of origin for the Dame d ' Auxerre, in the region of Eleutherna and Gortyn, with the recovery from gravesites of very similar carved ivory faces and phallic symbols.

Excavations were interrupted in 1914 by World War I and then ended with the Turkish War of Independence.

Excavations of some of these hut sites conducted in 1910 and 1930 found evidence for occupation in the Roman period, with finds including pottery, coins, and a small bronze stag.

* Excavations reveal ancient civilization with a sense of style Ekathimerini. com November 16, 2007

* Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989 – 1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Afe Strata in Area R ( editor with Robert Mullins ).