Example sentences for: excavations

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

  • Most of the regalia and artifacts on display, including the red wooden coffin containers in the burial vault, are copies of the items discovered during excavations in the 1950s.

  • The new science of archaeology was also developing, and excavations of Minoan palaces brought a new prosperity as the 20th-century phenomenon of tourism grew.

  • All that remains of the castle are the bases of four huge turrets (12th–13th century) and some excavations.

  • Later excavations revealed an 11th-century bathing pool on the terrace in front of the cave, with fountains in the shape of seven nymphs representing India’s great rivers.

  • The west wing — as at Knossós — was chiefly made up of shrines and storerooms and many objects of ritual were found during excavations here.


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