Aminatta Forna

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

British Writer

Sarah Parcak

Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.

American Scientist

Magnus Larsson

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

Swedish Athlete

John C. McGinley

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

American Actor

Zahi Hawass

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

Egyptian Scientist

Dorothy Allison

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

American Writer

Janet Fitch

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

American Author

James Baldwin

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

American Novelist

Sam Wanamaker

What would the world say if the Globe, now that it has at last been found, is not excavated?

Mary Beard

I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

Excavating often suggests a large or labor-intensive task.

Size and Effort

Excavating implies careful removal of earth, not just displacing it.

Not Just Digging

The word is often used in construction and land development contexts.

Associated with Construction

Excavate is used when creating tunnels or passages.

Creating Tunnels

Used when shaping land or creating features like ditches or ponds.

Land Shaping

The action is goal-oriented, meant to create something useful.

Specific Goal

Excavating is often connected with archeology and history.

Archaeological Context

Excavate here means uncovering hidden artifacts or structures.

Discovering History

Excavating fossils or relics is done methodically for research.

Scientific Study

 first day of excavation it was clear that the crocodile we were uncovering was the most likely a species previously unknown science we were incredulous and happy very happy we named it mokemo soros writes this marine crocodile is related to a group of large border dies that faced extinction at the am afraid to ask

Giant Prehistoric...

 of an ancient temple and what's incredible is that this structure is only located a kilometer south of the main city and previous archaeologists had missed it zoom in a little bit closer you can see just how clear this is we're going to excavate this feature in future but it

The history buried under...

 about the ancient life these clues are buried deep in the rock and must be painstakingly excavated the team began work on this site a year ago Lewis knows from the layer of rock they're digging that this dinosaur died a hundred and fifty million years ago but he doesn't

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 and made them harvest wood, excavate canals, and drain fields. Certain findings suggest that the Swamp’s hidden communities might have switched to a more defensive mode during this period. But researchers also observed more mass-produced objects from this time,

The secret society of...

 the structures haven't been excavated due to logistical and funding challenges but you can still make them out underneath mounds of dirt and trees these extra layers actually help preserve the ruins by protecting them from the elements some pieces of history

Climb Ancient Temples in...

 it's so special but seven years ago all the team could do was look they didn't have the time or the tools to excavate such an important piece of history today they do once again Ballard and his team have reassembled on the waters of the

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 just imagine trying to excavate this massive hole yer entirely which is not Kathy I've seen quite a number of art walk in my life mostly at night okay and and being quite lucky here in the Kruger Park but I haven't seen most of them

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 and will help create a new global alarm system to help protect sites. But it's not just going to stop there. All the archaeologists with whom we share your discoveries will take you with them as they begin to excavate them,

Help discover ancient...

 Are we in a hurry? Yes. Damaged by water, looting and encroachment is the biggest threat to archaeological sites all around the world. That's why we are here in Chotuna looking at an excavation,

How 3-D Imaging Helps...

 is 40 feet deep not so long though they'll have to shut down and excavate the rocks I'm just gonna take it down a little bit with the hall I don't know I'm sinking now it's gonna be soft it's