excavated
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The park was excavated as part of a 500-day national drive launched in March, touted as Vietnam's largest push to locate some of the hundreds of thousands missing since the war.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
They were excavated for UC Berkeley 126 years ago at the site of the ancient city of Tebtunis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Entire mountain faces have been excavated and roads, industrial infrastructure and settlements have transformed surrounding valleys.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Tiwanaku has been excavated for a century, and the more archaeologists delve into it the less there seems to be.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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