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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

The pavilion houses a giant boxcar that was unearthed outside the Majdanek concentration and death camp in Poland, and is believed to have transported Jews to the camp during the Holocaust.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

That it does, which is why these books have been unearthed from the stacks yet again.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Also unearthed were fireplaces containing evidence of the burning of toothed wrack seaweed to form soda ash.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Forty years later his great-nephew Nicolas, whom Marcos did not live to see, unearthed the desire to fly that had always existed in the men of his lineage.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende