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Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute have been excavating the bones since the middle of May.

From BBC • May 22, 2024

Researchers have been excavating the Belgian battlefield site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last stand, the infamous Battle of Waterloo, since 2012.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 4, 2024

The researchers have been excavating two rock shelters in the Bladen Nature Reserve, a remote and protected area of Belize that kept the sites, which were used as cemeteries, undisturbed for thousands of years.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022

Experts from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret College, Israel and Nyack College in New York, have been excavating the site of el-Araj on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

From Fox News • Jul. 30, 2019

Similar tiles were dug up at Wroxeter, and I have found slates of the same shape in the Roman villa I have been excavating for Mr. Chas.

From The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath by Davis, Charles E.