The enormous amount of earth that was excavated to make the bathtub was used to fill the Hudson River on the west side, creating the man-made land where Battery Park now stands.
Last month a senior Egyptian official was caught trying to sell a recently excavated mummy to an undercover officer posing as an antiquities dealer.
Along the opposite shores of the lake on which the settlement stands, the Roman equivalents of Lords Rothschild and Sainsbury built grand villas of their own: one, just starting to be excavated, may have belonged to Pomponius Atticus, a chum of Cicero's.
While many of the most well known Maya sites are located in Mexico and Guatemala, Belize is home to hundreds of archaeological sites, 11 of which are excavated and open to the public.
The skeletons are being excavated and taken to the Museum of London Archeology for further testing.
His officials had worked out a compromise by which the circle would be excavated and moved to another site before building began (though the circle, carved in soft limestone, might crumble in the process).
But, alas, according to the scientists who excavated the remains, the bones belonged to humans, and are actually evidence of tribal skull deformation being more wide-spread than first thought.
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Crater-causing collisions are thought to have excavated underground minerals that were then exposed on the crater peaks.
As a third of Pompeii has yet to be excavated, more human and animal remains could be found.
They have recently been excavated and are thought to be the remnants of Coudenberg Palace, an historical seat of European power.
There are still more pits at the fort to be excavated, and only 10% of Jane's body has been recovered, Owsley said.
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The actual tomb itself has yet to be excavated, but scientists are exploring its contents using remote sensing technology and believe it is crammed with even greater treasures awaiting discovery, including clay figurines of workers, animals, bronze chariots and other items he would have needed in his afterlife.
Parts of the Nunnery were excavated in 2011, revealing it to be a former Roman fort.
The family of Sinclair Upton, who was buried there in 1957, have consented to their plot being excavated.
Building materials must be taken from point A to point B, dirt excavated and hauled away, etc. etc.
In 1992, a team bankrolled by Tennessee businessman Roy Shoffner and led by Bob Cardin excavated the plane by using hot water to melt a shaft into the ice, hoisting the plane out piece by piece.
The plane was excavated with steam hoses, dismantled and lifted to the surface.
If completed, imported natural gas will be stored in seven excavated caverns, allowing storage for enough gas to satisfy NI's energy needs for 60 days.
Nadel points to Ohalo, a site he excavated near the Sea of Galilee that had been submerged for 20, 000 years before a drop in water level made it easy to excavate.
The site is vast and well-preserved, though to date only one third has been excavated.
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Necropolises were excavated, all portable artefacts and relics were removed to museums and, while some temples disappeared beneath the lake, 14 were salvaged.
Nadel points to Ohalo II, a site he excavated near the Sea of Galilee that had been submerged for 23, 000 years before a drop in water level made it easy to excavate.
His initial find, a spearhead, was reported to a finds liaison officer and the site excavated by archaeologists.
He said the variation was due to the type of limestone the fossils were excavated from, which can reduce the level of detail - or resolution - of the specimens.
Only 30 hectares were excavated, but discoveries range from worked flint dating back to back to around 7, 000 BC, to a Roman farmstead, much of which is preserved under sports pitches.
To fit the ships, the existing channels need to be widened and deepened with the berths at the base excavated.
Listed as an archaeological site since 1935, Babylon has been partially excavated over the last century, but much of the ancient city remains to be discovered.
"I didn't think it was likely to be him at first, " explains bioarchaeologist Jo Appleby, who excavated the remains.
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This city of the Indus civilization was excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, spreading over an area of almost 600 acre and 10% of which has been excavated and was one of the most ancient planned cities in the world built entirely of fired brick in accordance to a carefully designed urban planning scheme.
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