Ornamental details of the exterior, such as the doorway with its has-relief of the Last Judgment, are of a much later period than the rude excavations of the interior.
The lower excavations evidently served for stables, as the mangers roughly cut in the rock testify.
Excavations would incontestably produce interesting results; but they would be impossible without recommendatory letters, backed by two or three thousand European bayonets.
When the necessary excavations were nearly finished, and people were told the object of it, the scheme met no approval from those conservative persons who have no faith in new things.
Now, by excavations made during the year 1870 for the new railway from the Suspension Bridge to Buffalo, the surface rock was found to be compact and hard, much of it unusually so.
It shows the state of the ruins in the first half of our century, before the excavationscarried out at European instigation.
Smith, thought to find the site at Jerabis, the ancient Europos, and excavations carried on there by the English have brought to light in this place Hittite monuments which go back in part to the Assyrian epoch.
Renan carried out excavations in the hill of Kassubah which brought to light some remains of a Græco-Roman temple: he puts forward, subject to correction, the hypothesis which I have adopted above.
Evans, "Owing to previous excavations and to the presence of burrowing animals, the remains from above and below the stalagmite have become intermingled.
Additional discoveries at St. Acheul have continued up to the present time whenever excavations have gone on at the gravel-pits.
Similar results are indicated by the excavations of Mr. H.
Almost any of the railroad excavations in the city of Brooklyn present an interesting object-lesson respecting the composition of a terminal moraine.
Excavations have recently been made in the abbey precincts, with promising results.
For in such excavations it is a matter of moment to note accurately every possible separate fact as to the position, state, etc.
Now if it could be supposed that the planets were originally thrown out of the sun by larger sun-quakes than those frequent ones which occasion these spots or excavations above-mentioned, what would happen?
Spots of the sun are excavations 14 Spherical form of the earth.
Beside these bark huts, they made use of excavations in the rock; and as the situations of these were various, they could always choose them out of the reach of wind and rain.
At the mouths of these excavations we noticed a luxuriancy of soil; and on turning up the ground, found it rich with shells and other manure.
In 1888 interesting details as to the Boeotian cult of the Cabeiri were obtained by the excavations of their temple in the neighbourhood of Thebes, conducted by the German archaeological institute.
The peculiar nature of the soil has caused the excavations to be made in a manner similar to that used in the working of coal, iron, stone, lime, &c.
Parts of this large range of excavations were from time to time used as burial-grounds by such of the Romans as could not afford the cost of burning the bodies of their dead relations.
Excavations had been made previously in some parts of the precinct; for example, the portico of the Athenians was laid bare in 1860.
Provisional accounts of the excavationshave appeared during the excavations in the Bulletin de correspondance hellenique.
Excavations have been made by the French School at Athens upon the island of Delos since 1877, chiefly by Th.
The winter is on us, and I say that it will be well for us all when the excavations have been begun.
Once it is finished and furnished, and all other matters are seen to, we will set about getting helpers, for even small excavations demand a large amount of labour.
Stubborn or not, the lad had set his heart on the undertaking, and the further the excavations progressed the more eagerly did he move about the ruins.
Morgan's excavations at Mêîr, and is now at Gîzeh.
Morgan's excavationsat Susa may throw some light on them, but it is to the work of the German expedition, which has recently begun the systematic exploration of the site of Babylon, that we must chiefly look for help.
The monuments of these remote ages, however, cannot have entirely disappeared: they exist in places where we have not as yet thought of applying the pick, and chance excavationswill some day most certainly bring them to light.
At one angle a tunnel went beneath the heath into further excavations beneath a second boulder stone.
In the corners of these excavationstunnels ran deeper into the ground, and the ants immediately began hurrying their treasures, the eggs, down into these cellars.
Through his generosity handsome books have been published, museums have been opened, and excavations have been made in the earth which throw enlightenment on the origin of man.
Excavations in this square have been made, but no traces of the walls or foundations of the chapel have been found.
In the excavations for cellars of the houses constructed along the square, the foundations of the chapel may have been removed.
Excavations have been made at the spot where the tiles were found, and three feet lower down the workmen came across broken columns and bases of a large Roman building.
A Roman camp was usually square, with the corners slightly rounded, as has been proved by the excavations at Melandra and by the piece of Roman wall lately discovered at Chester, which shows a distinct curve towards the Pepper Gate.
A flint arrow-head found during some excavations at Clulow Cross near Wincle, tells us that men lived then by hunting, depending for their food on the flesh of wild beasts.
In one of theexcavations of the rock was discovered a woman lying dead, with a dead infant in her arms.
We could distinctly see tops of temples, trees, and houses, and there are still many wide and yawningexcavations in the earth.
The country that surrounded the large town and fort against which we were advancing was terrifically wild; and, in some parts, deep-sunk dells and excavations in the earth told us that caution alone would insure success.
It would be vain to attempt in many instances to assign the fragments found in excavations to particular buildings.
Excavations have shown that before Saxon days there was a considerable Roman settlement on the site of Southwark, and that the present High Street lies over the Roman approach to London.
Excavations at Chesters and Silchester have shown that the forum in each case occupied a large "insula" right in the centre of the city, and this would agree best with Stukeley's site.
And yet at the very moment when it seemed strongest and most secure, the Jewish prophet was uttering a prediction which the excavations of Botta and Layard have shown to have been carried out literally in fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excavations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
