Excavations
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Examples
- Nor do we find such excavations beside the barrows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A private expedition to make excavations among the ruined cities of Central America is, it seems, about to sail from Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For surface excavations in solid earth the Lidgerwood Cableway is an important and labor saving device. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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