Example sentences for: excavations

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

  • More than 40 years of excavations at the palace site have produced a picture of the medieval Royal Palace of King Mátyás; it is possible to visit the ten or so rooms that have survived from the original, now reconstructed in their former state.

  • Earthquake, fire, flood, and the plunder of barbarians and Renaissance architects reduced the area to a muddy cow pasture until the excavations of the 19th century.

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

  • The whole area was razed during Barbarian attacks in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire and was covered with new buildings during Byzantine times, all of which had to be cleared when excavations began.

  • The castle has always been considered the heart of Edinburgh, but its site is older than the city itself: Excavations show evidence of settlement in the Bronze Age (ca.


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