The excavators were immediately set to work; and they were very soon close upon the sand bed.
Every exertion was used to wall in the dangerous parts as quickly as possible; the excavators and bricklayers labouring night and day until the work was finished.
Michael Ireton had been thrown in close contact with one of the excavators who had formed the camp in the hills behind Tel-el-Amarna--they were now both employed in the same Government office in Assiut.
Why have they suddenly sent excavators to that particular spot, if there is nothing there?
The chaff and scoffing which he had so good-naturedly put up with from the fellow-excavators who had been to visit the camp were likely to be turned the other way.
She wanted to see how excavatorslive and to find out for herself what we were doing.
The excavators had become more and more convinced that he had stolen the treasure, and that it was now resting in its second hiding-place, awaiting, it was to be hoped, its final discovery.
The excavators pronounced them to be ancient stones of great value.
With the quickened zeal of modern excavators discoveries come apace, so that before these words are printed, some additional find, throwing all others into the shade, may come to light.
So the excavators had only to study these things and to tell the men where to work.
When one of these mounds is attacked from the top, the excavators must work downwards until they come to this paved platform.
The excavators have again and again found whole lines of bas-reliefs that appeared to have fallen together.
Ninevite building looks like after the excavators have finished their work.
They were discovered in 1811 amid the ruins of one of the temples at Ægina, by a company of excavators presided over by Mr. Cockerell.
And then he gave vent to a shout of amazement; for undoubtedly excavators had been before them.
As to the fate of the document itself, it was doubtless burned, for the camp in which the party of excavators was located caught fire.
On the morning of the fourth day the excavators came to a wall which had been broken through, and on passing to the far side discovered another covered way, as dark as pitch, but altogether free of sand and debris.
Around his statements the discoveries of the excavators and explorers are grouped.
The results of this excavation convinced Mr. Macalister that the classification of the strata adopted by the excavators of Lachish and the mounds of the Shephelah was capable of improvement.
The excavators of other sites have not given as much attention to the construction of houses as Mr. Macalister did.
It is necessary and right that men's opinions should alter, in consequence of reflection, and of the increase of our knowledge of prehistoric Greece, through the revelations of excavators on the ancient sites of a rediscovered world.
While they looked like toys beside such giant excavators as the Corozal, they probably showed more efficiency than any other class of excavators of their period of construction.
Two years later a ton of copper, bronze, and tin was taken from old French locomotives and excavators and shipped to Philadelphia, where it was made into medals by the United States Mint.
One of the excavators pointed out to us the "bathroom" of the palace, running through which was a mono-rail, evidently having been constructed for the purpose of conveying water from the reservoir to the bath.
Nineveh was closed to excavators about four years ago, but it is hoped that investigations will be renewed again in the near future, as there still remain thirteen rooms of the palace to be examined.
Excavators connected with the American School at Jerusalem are busy at Samaria and they believe they have uncovered portions of the great temple of Baal, which King Ahab erected in honor of the wicked deity 890 B.
In the interior every device had been employed to conceal the exact position of the sarcophagus, and to discourage the excavators whom chance or persistent search might have put upon the right track.
Most of the excavators and explorers have, very naturally, given us personal accounts of their labours.
The bodies were closely flexed and placed on the side; the bones settled to the bottom of the grave, while the skull, if intact, is reached first by excavators and the conclusion drawn at once that it is "on top of the other bones.
This gave the excavators hope that an earth floor had been reached, as the stalagmite was vertical and resembled in all respects stalagmites in the cave.
Consequently, present-day excavators and students have often reason to be grateful that the habit likewise obtained of inscribing on bricks in buildings and the stone sockets of doors the names of kings and others.
No traces have yet been found in Palestine of its conquest by the Elamites, nor have the excavators been able to substantiate the claim of Lugal-zaggizi of a previous age to have extended his empire to the shores of the Mediterranean.
Excavators have discovered at Sippar traces of a school which dates from the Hammurabi Dynasty.
Excavators have found that at the gates they were about a hundred feet in breadth.
The pioneer work achieved by British and French excavators stimulated interest all over the world.
Even the Turkish Government has encouraged research work, and its excavators have accumulated a fine collection of antiquities at Constantinople.
In the face of her Ladyship's protests the excavators were marched off to a place out of sight; the plain reason being that the part all round where we were was already excavated down to its original level.
Your Majesty, may the excavators cast about and find a good place to begin, that we may have something to see while our ears are being tickled?
Meanwhile the excavators proceeded with their labours, and in the following year another, and then a third canoe of primitive form, were disclosed on the southern bank of the Clyde.
It has been greatly destroyed by excavators at some former period.
In the progress of the work the excavators exposed a group of circular shafts, or well-like pits, varying from three feet to about twenty feet in depth.
If theexcavators held that theory, and were unscrupulous, was it not as easy for them to conceal the objects which disproved the hypothesis, as to insert the disputed objects--which do not prove it?
Early excavatorsexpressed a belief that the chambers received light from the top.
Here, in fact, we have so close a resemblance to the masonry of true cliff houses that we can hardly doubt that the excavators of the cavate dwellings were, in reality, people similar to those who built the cliff houses of Verde valley.
My nativeexcavators pronounced this the grave of a warrior priest.
It was recently destroyed by railway constructors who explored it to the depth of 116 feet; but, says Worthington Smith, "amateur excavatorsafterwards excavated the hole to a much greater depth and found more bones and broken pots.
Craster, Fellow of All Souls, and one of theexcavators of Corbridge, in the Archaeological Journal (lxxi.
Every exertion was used to wall in the dangerous parts as quickly as possible, the excavators and bricklayers laboring night and day until the work was finished.
In many cases the excavators state that they found clear traces of cremation in the graves.
A good example of a late Babylonian arch was discovered by the German excavators on the Kasr at Babylon; the arch in question (cf.
An interesting specimen of oriental ironwork was found at Babylon by the German excavators in the shape of an iron rod beautifully decorated with a series of polished ornaments, and possibly formed part of a royal throne.
Similar round tablets were found by the German excavators at Fara, which were however baked and not sun-dried.
Sometimes figures of animals as well as of human beings were similarly enshrined in brick capsules; thus a model of a clay dove enclosed in this manner was discovered by the German excavators at Babylon.
A partial duplicate of this inscription on the Behistun Rock is inscribed on a dolerite block discovered by the German excavators at Babylon; it contains many interesting additions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excavators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
