Example sentences for: excavated

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

  • In the late 1980s, a team of Italian and Israeli archaeologists excavated a perfume factory, which dates back to Cleopatra's reign, 30 miles south of the Dead Sea.

  • Nothing like him in Bosch or Breugel, nothing so denatured as to resemblenot a semblance of a human facebut the substance of some form made and then unmade, or like a lump of human butter excavated from a bog.

  • 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.

  • Beside the entrance to the Alcazaba are the partially excavated ruins of a Roman theater, the only visible remains of the ancient city.

  • The route of the great “sacred way” that linked the Agora with the Acropolis above — and that was used during the Panathenaic Festival — is now being excavated and rebuilt to allow visitors to walk in the footsteps of the ancient Athenians.


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