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Example sentences for: excavation

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Atrophic excavation of the optic nerve head was evident histologically and by clinical fundus examination in old but not in young mice (Figure 3, Table 1).
He began digging in 1900 after buying the site and financing the excavation program with his own money, and almost immediately struck the first building blocks of a huge Bronze Age palace replete with magnificent pottery and other artifacts.
It was rediscovered in 1594 by an architect building an aqueduct, but excavation did not begin until 1748 under the Bourbons, making a tremendous impact on the rest of Europe.
Perhaps the fascination with man's past grew out of the obsession with ruins evinced by Romanticism; certainly, modern archaeology seems to have followed close behind, for the excavation of the supposed site of Troy took place only about 100 years ago.
For nearly 900 years, it was left in ruins, and not until 1910 did the slow work of excavation begin.