Example sentences for: excavated

How can you use “excavated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The mosque and tomb were erected on the bed of sand that covered the temple and now sit five m (20 ft) or so above the excavated floor level.

  • Jewelry: When Schliemann excavated the tombs of the Mycenaean rulers he found their skulls decorated with masks fashioned from pure gold.

  • The Capitoline Museums, in the twin palaces of the Campidoglio (see page 50), have extensive collections of sculpture excavated from ancient Rome, particularly in the Palazzo Nuovo.

  • A particular fascination, and one both beautiful and gruesome, is the semi-ruined church whose floor has been partly excavated leaving tombs with bones and skulls exposed.

  • In a.d. 331, Constantine, the Roman emperor, legalised Christianity and together with his mother, Helen, developed and excavated Christian sites.


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