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We need to have a plan for excavation in Assam to recover material culture and to reconstruct social and cultural behavior of these groups of people. – Tilok Thakuria	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We were originally hoping to find marine fossils, and finding something so significant instead has been a real thrill, even better than that is seeing it turn into a major archaeological excavation led by DigVentures, and a BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough. We couldn't be more pleased that something we've discovered will be learned from and enjoyed by so many people. – Sally Hollingworth	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I never thought I'd get to go on a fossil excavation in my life, and that was just really, really cool. – Matthew Van Scoyoc	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I ’m a contractor for excavation and all of my equipment on site was vandalized, for the most part, a majority of the people are for the pipeline. Everybody enjoys gasoline and plastic products. The opponents are shielding themselves with Native Americans. Most of the protesters were White.Line 3 has brought back millions of dollars to the reservations. – Matt Gordon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Finding the location of Maryland’s original settlement is truly exciting news for our state and will give us an opportunity to reconnect with our pre-colonial and early colonial years, the state has been proud to support the study of St. Mary’s Fort and looks forward to further excavation of the area as we approach our state’s 400th anniversary. – Larry Hogan	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question. – Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This site is a significant discovery the most comprehensive modern excavation of a Roman cemetery in Somerset. – Steve Membery	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Keep in mind that they've been looking for this treasure for 20 years and still haven't found it, there's no indication that this new bedrock excavation is going to bear fruit. We're talking about causing irreparable geological damage. There is simply no justification for that. – Representative Diego Ibanez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I really believe that this site needs excavation maybe for the coming 50 years. – Zahi Hawass	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Finding yourself' is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right here, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. 'Finding yourself' is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you“'Finding yourself' is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right here, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. 'Finding yourself' is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you – Emily McDowell	added by anonymous 5 years ago
We will continue for at least four more years until we have completed the excavation of the synagogue, and then the excavations will end and we will work on publication. – Chapel Hill Professor Jodi Magness	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We registered 700 objects this last [excavation] season – seal impressions, scarabs, tools, weapons, jewelry, utilitarian objects, cultic objects, and about 2,000 pieces of pottery a day. – Scott Stripling	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The structure exposed in this excavation is different from most of the previously discovered farmsteads, its orderly plan, vast area, strong walls and the impressive water reservoir hewn beneath it suggest that the site was administrative in nature and it may well have controlled the surrounding farmsteads. – Gilad Itach	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It literally happened on the last day of the excavation, … right in front of our eyes and those of the excited students, an unusual ceramic vessel c. 18 cm high (7 inches) was exposed, atop of is the image of a person…. – Gilad Ilatch	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The site we are talking about is 2,000 square meters and 10 meters deep and requires hundreds of workers and millions of dollars to carry out proper excavation to extract pieces and read the texts written on them. – Abu Rida	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Photogrammetry provides a fantastic analytical tool that allows us to examine the grave from angles that would have been physically difficult or impossible to achieve during the excavation. – Richard III	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

We need to have a plan for excavation in Assam to recover material culture and to reconstruct social and cultural behavior of these groups of people.

– Tilok Thakuria

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were originally hoping to find marine fossils, and finding something so significant instead has been a real thrill, even better than that is seeing it turn into a major archaeological excavation led by DigVentures, and a BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough. We couldn't be more pleased that something we've discovered will be learned from and enjoyed by so many people.

– Sally Hollingworth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I never thought I'd get to go on a fossil excavation in my life, and that was just really, really cool.

– Matthew Van Scoyoc

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I ’m a contractor for excavation and all of my equipment on site was vandalized, for the most part, a majority of the people are for the pipeline. Everybody enjoys gasoline and plastic products. The opponents are shielding themselves with Native Americans. Most of the protesters were White.Line 3 has brought back millions of dollars to the reservations.

– Matt Gordon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Finding the location of Maryland’s original settlement is truly exciting news for our state and will give us an opportunity to reconnect with our pre-colonial and early colonial years, the state has been proud to support the study of St. Mary’s Fort and looks forward to further excavation of the area as we approach our state’s 400th anniversary.

– Larry Hogan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question.

– Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This site is a significant discovery the most comprehensive modern excavation of a Roman cemetery in Somerset.

– Steve Membery

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Keep in mind that they've been looking for this treasure for 20 years and still haven't found it, there's no indication that this new bedrock excavation is going to bear fruit. We're talking about causing irreparable geological damage. There is simply no justification for that.

– Representative Diego Ibanez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I really believe that this site needs excavation maybe for the coming 50 years.

– Zahi Hawass

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Finding yourself' is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right here, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. 'Finding yourself' is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you“'Finding yourself' is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right here, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. 'Finding yourself' is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you

– Emily McDowell

added by anonymous
5 years ago

We will continue for at least four more years until we have completed the excavation of the synagogue, and then the excavations will end and we will work on publication.

– Chapel Hill Professor Jodi Magness

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We registered 700 objects this last [excavation] season – seal impressions, scarabs, tools, weapons, jewelry, utilitarian objects, cultic objects, and about 2,000 pieces of pottery a day.

– Scott Stripling

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The structure exposed in this excavation is different from most of the previously discovered farmsteads, its orderly plan, vast area, strong walls and the impressive water reservoir hewn beneath it suggest that the site was administrative in nature and it may well have controlled the surrounding farmsteads.

– Gilad Itach

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It literally happened on the last day of the excavation, … right in front of our eyes and those of the excited students, an unusual ceramic vessel c. 18 cm high (7 inches) was exposed, atop of is the image of a person….

– Gilad Ilatch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The site we are talking about is 2,000 square meters and 10 meters deep and requires hundreds of workers and millions of dollars to carry out proper excavation to extract pieces and read the texts written on them.

– Abu Rida

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Photogrammetry provides a fantastic analytical tool that allows us to examine the grave from angles that would have been physically difficult or impossible to achieve during the excavation.

– Richard III

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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