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  • It was like some kind of archaeological crossword… a riddle that promised to reveal how to open the cryptex.†   (source)
  • He was polishing the metal clasp surrounding the snakestone, as gently and as carefully as an archaeologist on a dig, taking off the black and revealing the glittering silver beneath it.†   (source)
  • Governments, historians, and archaeologists from all over the globe had written letters, pleaded with the Taliban not to demolish the two greatest historical artifacts in Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • You could get a perfect image of the bones, in three dimensions, and it promised a whole new era of archaeology without excavation.†   (source)
  • But he would never have thought it more than just a myth, had not a friend of his? returning from an archaeological expedition in the desert? told him about an Arab that was possessed of exceptional powers.†   (source)
  • I'm writing this log to you, dear future Mars archaeologist, from Rover 2.†   (source)
  • I went from room to room, examining their contents like an archaeologist.†   (source)
  • Hank, a retired professor of classical archaeology, always brings a small volume of Greek poetry to read, his long sun-spotted fingers curling over the tops of the pages.†   (source)
  • "All right, just supposing there's something, I take it you're not here for the sheer industrial archeology of it all.†   (source)
  • I plan to become an archaeological zoologist.†   (source)
  • Someone dies, the wife of an American soldier, a former Japanese officer, an archaeologist in Taiwan or Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Then, during the years of Hoyt's study in seminary, Dur had been on an important Church-sponsored archaeological dig on the nearby world of Armaghast.†   (source)
  • Now it's deserted, of course, just the hibachi, which is rusted and almost buried in gray ash, like an archaeological relic.†   (source)
  • The place felt like an archeological site, the ruins of a lost American civilization. bags of money†   (source)
  • The room around him was rich in codes and messages, an archaeology of childhood, things Denise had carried with her since the age of three, from cartoon clocks to werewolf posters.†   (source)
  • I was born in L.A. but my dad's an archaeologist, so his work takes him all over.†   (source)
  • They were known worldwide for their discoveries, which had helped reshape modern archaeology.†   (source)
  • Recently some archaeologists or oceanographers or whoever looks for stuff like that said they found it, but no one's certain just yet, being that it sank over 250 years ago and you can't exactly reach into the glove compartment and check the registration.†   (source)
  • She's like this endless archaeological dig: You think you've reached the final layer, and then you bring down your pick one more time, and you break through to a whole new mine shaft beneath.†   (source)
  • The name of the oldest hominid remains Earthborn archaeologists ever discovered.†   (source)
  • The men of C.E.T. were likened to archeologists of ideas, inspired by God in the grandeur of rediscovery.†   (source)
  • It's just this archeological feeling that the calmness of the surroundings conceals things.†   (source)
  • An archeologist searches for traces of the distant past by digging through layers of cultural history.†   (source)
  • He was a practicing archaeologist and played an instrumental role in Heinrich Schliemann's excavations of Troy.†   (source)
  • What was clear was that the old patriarch had tackled the job with the systematic approach of an amateur archaeologist—the material was going to fill twenty feet of shelving.†   (source)
  • For a while I could almost detach myself from the place and its history and take pleasure in it purely as an archaeological site.†   (source)
  • There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs.†   (source)
  • She had remembered that when I was little, I had told the ladies at coffee hour I wanted to be an archaeologist.†   (source)
  • Once he obtained all the information that he needed, he organized teams of Indians to dig up whatever might have escaped the priest's zealous archaeological notice.†   (source)
  • The white buildings of Missing looked rounded at the edges, worn down, as if they'd been excavated in an archaeological dig but not restored.†   (source)
  • If only to burn it into the casing down at Hatteras so that some scale-headed archaeologist several thousand years from now can give an identity to the teeth he's measuring.†   (source)
  • She imagines her footprints sinking invisibly through the streets and the sidewalks, below the condensed archaeology of the city to underground plains of rich alluvial clay.†   (source)
  • It looked like something that an archeological dig might have turned up, that hadn't been properly cleaned yet.†   (source)
  • And even though archaeologists have been working there for a long time, you can still find arrowheads if you look.†   (source)
  • A team of archeologists from Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe established that the skeleton I found was very old and that of an Indian.†   (source)
  • In 1901, French archaeologists were working at the site of Susa, an ancient Persian city.†   (source)
  • An archaeologist by training, he was a natural digger.†   (source)
  • Professor Sullivan stood by one of the great statues that had been such a challenge to archaeology since Easter Island was discovered.†   (source)
  • (Staring straight at BRADY) Deacon of the Congregational Church— and professor of geology and archeology at Oberlin College.†   (source)
  • He talked a great deal, in a way that at times made you think of a childlike rabbi or sweet, mysteriously innocent old Russian priest and at other times reminded you of an elderly archeologist in his comfortable classroom, musing and harkening back.†   (source)
  • It was called _Archaeological Discoveries in Asia Minor.†   (source)
  • "Good old Mars!" said Samuel Hinkston, archaeologist.†   (source)
  • No. The archaeologist took a half step back.†   (source)
  • She was able to identify features of that era which only a trained archaeologist could know about.†   (source)
  • But he's an archaeologist," I said stubbornly.†   (source)
  • The archaeologist stood with his hands in the pockets of his long blue coat.†   (source)
  • Randolph saw Emma as his successor, the next great historian-archaeologist of the family.†   (source)
  • "And it's a small town the like of Earth towns," said Hinkston, the archaeologist "Incredible.†   (source)
  • The archaeologist who was quoted on Kryptos, Nola knew, was in fact famed Egyptologist Howard Carter.†   (source)
  • The pathologist stood up at his desk to tell the story, in a loud voice, at moments practically declaiming, recounting how they had done mathematical modeling, employed their own Cuban archaeologist, soil chemist, geologist, and botanist, and how, after searching for three hundred days, they had finally come upon the bones and identified them and sneaked them back to Cuba.†   (source)
  • Right, that whole section is verbatim from some famous archaeologist's diary, telling about the moment he dug down and uncovered an ANCIENT PORTAL that led to the tomb of Tutankhamen.†   (source)
  • Sitting in these empty rooms, Y.T. would study the old furniture scrapes on the floors, the dents in the sheetrock, and muse over them like an archaeologist, wondering about the longdeparted families who had once lived here.†   (source)
  • Egypt's leading archaeologist recently speculated that they've only discovered thirty percent of the ancient ruins in Egypt.†   (source)
  • I felt like an archaeologist about to sift through a finding of tool fragments and assorted cave trash.†   (source)
  • Dad was just an archaeologist.†   (source)
  • Rachel still retained the interest and skills of a we! l-trained undergraduate archaeologist-to-be, but those skills dwindled a bit each day and Sol could see no benefit to her returning to the site of the accident.†   (source)
  • Tall, thin, ascetic, with white hair receding from a noble brow and eyes too filled with the sharp edge "of experience to hide their pain, Paul Dur was a follower of St Tellhard as well as an archaeologist, ethnologist, and eminent Jesuit theologian.†   (source)
  • She was going to need an archaeologist to sort through the reams and reams of paper that filled the rooms.†   (source)
  • This is what Jesse Detwiler said, the garbage archaeologist who'd addressed the massed members about an hour after the tremor—an address that did not go down well with the grilled squab and baby Zen vegetables.†   (source)
  • Somehow an archaeologist's wife ended up with this huge stone eye in her bedroom, and in the middle of the night it exploded and a big cat started biting the archaeologist's wife's neck.†   (source)
  • I was an eighteen-year-old girl who had wanted to be an archaeologist when I was four, and a poet or a Broadway star when I grew up.†   (source)
  • I thought of Jesse Detwiler, the garbage archaeologist, and wondered if he might suggest that the people abandoned the settlement because they were pushed out by waste, because they had no room to live and breathe, surrounded by their own mounting garbage, and it was nice in a way to think it was true, one of those romantic desert mysteries and the answer's staring us in the face.†   (source)
  • The following afternoon Allon was seen lunching with an old friend, the noted biblical archaeologist Eli Lavon, in a café along the Mamilla Mall, and at four o'clock he was spotted on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport, where he met the daily Air France flight from Paris.†   (source)
  • A neon strip, with bars and girlie joints and what looked like an archeological-grade movie theatre.†   (source)
  • Maybe that's why I feel like an archeologist.†   (source)
  • He gradually developed a type of therapy that we could call the archeology of the soul.†   (source)
  • Today it was an exhibit on Chinese archaeology, and he had invited Ruth and Art to join them.†   (source)
  • And so his parents life work archaeology was suddenly worthless.†   (source)
  • Now I better understand what you meant by an archeology of the soul.†   (source)
  • They've told us about some of the inexplicable things that archaeology sometimes reveals.†   (source)
  • Rife Bible College, which he founded, has the richest archaeology department in the world.†   (source)
  • Now I feel like some archeologist myself.†   (source)
  • As many as archaeologists bother to dig up.†   (source)
  • I told you that our parents are archaeologists, he added.†   (source)
  • Our parents are archaeologists, remember?†   (source)
  • My dad packed the same way, except he was allowed an extra workbag for his archaeology tools.†   (source)
  • Josh and Sophie's parents were archaeologists.†   (source)
  • The way the narrators portray Egyptian magic is also supported by archaeological evidence.†   (source)
  • "The Sphinx was too popular with archaeologists," Zia said.†   (source)
  • The twins parents were archaeologists, currently on loan to the University of San Francisco.†   (source)
  • We couldn't let the archaeologists know how much they're missing.†   (source)
  • "My father was a farmer," she said, "but he also worked for archaeologists.†   (source)
  • When the archaeologists first excavated this site, they thought they'd found the Necromanteion.†   (source)
  • He was a certified public accountant and had also studied archaeology.†   (source)
  • This is archaeology as far as she's concerned.†   (source)
  • He put them down in a corner of the alcove and wearily began again on the archaeology books.†   (source)
  • Leamas ignored her, and returned his attention to the archaeology section.†   (source)
  • That'll be your job, as archaeologists, to find out the old names, and we'll use them.†   (source)
  • The New York Museum of Archeology's candlelight benefit dinner-salmon flambe in the shadow of a brontosaurus skeleton.†   (source)
  • Once some foreign archaeologists arrived to do some work there and told us that in times gone by it was a place of pilgrimage, full of beautiful temples domed with gold where Buddhist kings lay buried.†   (source)
  • The eighteen folios—now known as Leonardo's Codex Leicester after their famous owner, the Earl of Leicester—were all that remained of one of Leonardo's most fascinating notebooks: essays and drawings outlining Da Vinci's progressive theories on astronomy, geology, archaeology, and hydrology.†   (source)
  • He was eventually told that such an archaeological excavation in the records presumably could be done, but that it would take time and it was beyond the boundaries of what could be considered public information.†   (source)
  • And should Armageddon come, should a foreign enemy someday shower the United States with nuclear warheads, laying waste to the whole continent, entombed within Cheyenne Mountain, along with the high-tech marvels, the pale blue jumpsuits, comic books, and Bibles, future archeologists may find other clues to the nature of our civilization — Big King wrappers, hardened crusts of Cheesy Bread, Barbeque Wing bones, and the red, white, and blue of a Domino's pizza box.†   (source)
  • He's our island's senior-most resident, better known in archaeological circles as Cairnholm Man—though to us he's just the Old Man.†   (source)
  • Archaeologists petitioned to begin blasting through the bedrock to reach the mysterious chamber, but the Rosslyn Trust expressly forbade any excavation of the sacred site.†   (source)
  • A new slide appeared—a black-and-white interior shot, depicting a massive vaulted ballroom, furnished with animal skeletons, scientific display cases, glass jars with biological samples, archaeological artifacts, and plaster casts of prehistoric reptiles.†   (source)
  • This is naturally a source of great sorrow to present-day archeologists, who would rather have seen medieval man leave the ancient monuments untouched.†   (source)
  • It's just that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated.†   (source)
  • I remember reading once about an archeological excavation in the Near East, learning about the archeologist's feelings when he opened the forgotten tombs for the first time in thousands of years.†   (source)
  • He created an archaeology department whose sole function was to dig up the city of Eridu, locate the temple where Enki stored all of his me, and take it all home.†   (source)
  • I remember reading once about an archeological excavation in the Near East, learning about the archeologist's feelings when he opened the forgotten tombs for the first time in thousands of years.†   (source)
  • 3 million to Rife Bible College, Reverend Wayne Bedford, President and chairman of the theology department; $20 million to the archaeology department of Rife Bible College, plus $45 million to the astronomy department and $100 million to the computer science department.†   (source)
  • She chose Nightenhelser. it was little surprise to Sol that his daughter chose archaeology as a major.†   (source)
  • Old Mr Eikhardt-he's the paleontology/archaeology tute in the advanced class I take up at the Ed Center-he says they have a great classics and ancient artifacts department.†   (source)
  • But somewhere at the back of his mind, a small voice kept reminding him that every year archaeologists including his parents kept making extraordinary discoveries.†   (source)
  • The team of nine archaeologists and six physicists had found Keep Chronos fascinating but far too crowded with tourists and would-be Shrike pilgrims, so after the first month spent commuting from the hotel, they had set up a permanent camp between the ruined city and the small canyon holding the Time Tombs.†   (source)
  • I read once in an archaeological journal that Kemp-HS! tzer and Weinstein had postulated a "fusion tunneler" that would explain the perfectly smooth walls and lack of tailings, but their theory did not explain where the Builders or their machines had come from or why they had devoted centuries to such an apparently aimless engineering task.†   (source)
  • Our parents are archaeologists.†   (source)
  • Archaeologists?†   (source)
  • The eagle was so important … well, archaeologists have never recovered a single eagle from ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • Annabeth had insisted on checking the archaeology museum, then the giant metal statue of the Spartan warrior in the public square, then the National Museum of Olives and Olive Oil (yes, that was a real thing).†   (source)
  • A weather ballon is mistaken for a flying saucer, a bear is mistaken for Bigfoot, an archaeological find is discovered to have been moved to its current location hundreds or thousands of years after its original deposition.†   (source)
  • Her concentration was absolute; she placed the paper on the coffee table and studied it as though it were an archaeological find, a scroll perhaps.†   (source)
  • The mortal archaeologists have excavated some of the tombs, but there's still a huge network of tunnels and chambers no one's opened in thousands of years.†   (source)
  • Celia remembers Felicia in another bathing suit, a tiny lemon-yellow one she wore the year the sea retreated beyond the horizon, the year the archaeology of the ocean floor revealed itself—catacombs of ancient coral, lunar rocks exposed to the sun.†   (source)
  • Early archaeologists had poured plaster into the holes and made these casts—creepy replicas of Ancient Romans.†   (source)
  • Georgios Dontas, head of the Archeological Society in Athens, saw the statue and immediately felt cold.†   (source)
  • Art and Archaeology is murkier and more velvety than last year, and filled with impasto and chiaroscuro.†   (source)
  • I imagined horror film mummies with their arms out and their linen wraps coming undone, groaning as they chased screaming starlets and strangled archaeologists.†   (source)
  • But I was fascinated, the way I had been as a child when, in a special room with low light, I saw an exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology.†   (source)
  • She breakfasted alone in the Panorama's dining room, she roasted her skin on the black-pebble beach at Perissa, she hiked the rim of the caldera, she toured the island's archaeological and geological sites, she took her wine at sunset on the terrace.†   (source)
  • But Art and Archaeology was reassuring to them: I could veer off in the archaeology direction and take to digging things up, which was more serious.†   (source)
  • The style of the sculpture seemed reminiscent of the Anavyssos kouros in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, meaning that it seemed to fit with a particular time and place.†   (source)
  • Because waste is the secret history the underhistory, the way archaeologists dig out the history of early cultures, every sort of bone heap and broken tool, literally from under the ground.†   (source)
  • The other students in Art and Archaeology are all girls but one, just as the professors are all men but one.†   (source)
  • It's part of Art and Archaeology at the University of Toronto, which is the only sanctioned pathway that leads anywhere close to art.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hrbik and the tactility of the body do not fit into Art and Archaeology; my botched attempts at drawing naked women would be seen as a waste of time.†   (source)
  • This clothing is not a disguise, like other clothing, but an allegiance, and in time I work up the courage to wear these things even in the daytime, to Art and Archaeology; all except the jeans, which nobody wears.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (Astonished) In one breath, does the court deny the existence of zoology, geology and archeology?†   (source)
  • And you and I and the children were out in the mountains, doing archaeological work, research on the ancient surgical methods of the Martians.†   (source)
  • Why don't you start on the archaeology?†   (source)
  • See what can be done to restrict tearing this planet apart, at least for fifty years, until the archaeologists have had a decent chance, will you?†   (source)
  • Miss Crail was delighted; by half-past eleven she had told her mother, and on returning from lunch she stood in front of the archaeology shelves where he had been working since he came.†   (source)
  • George accepted Victorian society so implicitly that to an archaeologist he would be a fascinating object.†   (source)
  • Nothing—as Mrs. Welland had often remarked—nothing on earth obliged Emerson Sillerton to be an archaeologist, or indeed a Professor of any sort, or to live in Newport in winter, or do any of the other revolutionary things that he did.†   (source)
  • I want to be an architect, not an archeologist.†   (source)
  • Archeologists are probing the ruins of Iraq, Honan, Crete, and Yucatan.†   (source)
  • The smoke from the cook-houses drifted away in the mist and the camp lay revealed as a planless maze of short-cuts, superimposed on the unfinished housing-scheme, as though disinterred at a much later date by a party of archaeologists.†   (source)
  • The stuff had to be where he could lay his hands on it at once, his clippings and pieces of paper, in folders labeled Commerce, Invention, Major Local Transactions, Crime and Gang, Democrats, Republicans, Archaeology, Literature, League of Nations.†   (source)
  • There are Jane Harrison's books on Greek archaeology; Vernon Lee's books on aesthetics; Gertrude Bell's books on Persia.†   (source)
  • Now if she had gone into business; had become a manufacturer of artificial silk or a magnate on the Stock Exchange; if she had left two or three hundred thousand pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease to-night and the subject of our talk might have been archaeology, botany, anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relativity, geography.†   (source)
  • The Magistrate displayed interest in archaeology.†   (source)
  • We went to Africa merely to see Timgad, since my principal interest in life is archeology.†   (source)
  • I adore Rome, and I have always had a great taste for archaeology.†   (source)
  • Florence was singularly expert as a guide to archaeological expeditions and there was nothing she liked so much as taking people round ruins and showing you the window from which some one looked down upon the murder of some one else.†   (source)
  • He awed Babbitt by confessing that he often sat up till midnight reading the figures and footnotes in Government reports, or skimming (with amusement at the author's mistakes) the latest volumes of chemistry, archeology, and ichthyology.†   (source)
  • He talked of the classics, but he had been to Greece, and he discoursed of archaeology; he had once spent a winter digging; they could not see how that helped a man to teach boys to pass examinations, He talked of politics.†   (source)
  • If they were not absorbed in state politics or municipal reform, the chances were that they were going in for Central American archaeology, for architecture or landscape-engineering; taking a keen and learned interest in the prerevolutionary buildings of their own country, studying and adapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word "Colonial."†   (source)
  • This was catching me on my archaeological natural-history side, and I fell into the trap without any thought of where and when I was; so I began on it, while one of the girls, the handsome one, who had been scattering little twigs of lavender and other sweet-smelling herbs about the floor, came near to listen, and stood behind me with her hand on my shoulder, in which she held some of the plant that I used to call balm: its strong sweet smell brought back to my mind my very early days…†   (source)
  • His own conversation (though he told Isabel a good deal about the house, which had a very curious history) was not purely archaeological; he reverted at intervals to matters more personal—matters personal to the young lady as well as to himself.†   (source)
  • "And for the sake of archaeology, let's hope that sooner or later such excavations do take place, once new towns are settled on the isthmus after the Suez Canal has been cut through—a canal, by the way, of little use to a ship such as the Nautilus!"†   (source)
  • Having already described him in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archaeological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.†   (source)
  • One of the humble archeologists who hover about the place had put himself at the disposal of the two, and repeated his lesson with a fluency which the decline of the season had done nothing to impair.†   (source)
  • Morcerf had expected he should be the guide; on the contrary, it was he who, under the count's guidance, followed a course of archaeology, mineralogy, and natural history.†   (source)
  • And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a…†   (source)
  • M. Snodgrass, The Dark Age of Greece: An Archaeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries B. c. (Edinburgh, 1971); and his Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art (Cambridge, 1998).†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, these crucial centuries are so little known from archaeology, except for a general impression of disunity and of diminished cultural production, that they are called the Dark Ages.†   (source)
  • Archaeologists and philologists have identified in Homer relics of artifacts and linguistic forms that must date to the Greek Bronze Age of the middle second millennium.†   (source)
  • …starting point for these traditions is the fall of Troy itself, for there was indeed a city of Troy, and it does seem to have suffered a series of disasters around the time that later Greek scholars set for the Trojan War, 1184 B.C. We know this because of the pioneering archaeological labors of Heinrich Schliemann, who, in a time when Homer was regarded as pure fantasy, followed up clues in The Iliad to the northwest coast of Turkey a mile or two from the entrance to the Dardanelles.†   (source)
  • "Q" to his archaeological students and his friends.†   (source)
  • Wherever we went, someone came up and asked my opinions on everything from the effects of the new tax to the latest archaeological discoveries in Finland.†   (source)
  • Three hours later, we knew how many Y and Z holes there were (fifty-nine, if you care; I didn't), but had no more clue to the purpose of the structure than had the dozens of amateur and professional archaeologists who had crawled over the site for the last five hundred years.†   (source)
  • …antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book…†   (source)
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