unearthed

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Raymond said she watched the search and counted at least 45 animal carcasses unearthed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

Most primates today live in the tropics, and most primate fossils have been unearthed there too.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

The long-running series “Secrets of the Dead” doesn’t always showcase recent discoveries—the subject of “China’s Bronze Kingdom,” for instance, was unearthed in 1986.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The one here involves the eight pits that were unearthed 40 years ago by workers in Sanxingdui in southern China “at the foot of the Tibetan mountains,” as narrator Jay O. Sanders tells us.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

This—combined with what we have just unearthed at Theodore Nott’s—could mean something.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling