Excavated Collection (page 2)

Turkey. Cappadocia. Ortahisar with castle. Central Anatolia

Turkey. Cappadocia. Uchisar. Cave house. Central Anatolia

Prehistoric Houses
Pre-historic dwellings at Sumburgh, Shetland. These buildings were excavated by H. M. Office of Works and were communal villages of the past, partly built underground Date: March 1939

Pompeii - Two Sides
Pompeii - looking across the town, with the uncovered and un-excavated areas clearly demarcated by a change in land level. Date: 1910

Botha at Khorsabad
The site of Dur-Sharrukin (now caled Khorsabad) was excavated by Paul Emile Botta and Victor Place in the 19th century. The city was founded by Sargon the King of Assyria in 717 BC. Date: 1846

Puabis Diadem and Headdress from the Royla Graves at Ur, Iraq - excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. Date: 1928

A curious bed scene excavated in Resina.. A curious bed scene excavated in Resina. A young man lies on a bed drinking wine from a horn or Rhyton, a woman wears a fine peplos dress

Fake rodent skeleton
Sent to the Museum by amateur palaeontologist Reverend C Green in 1843. The skeleton had not been dug out of the ground whole and bones belonged to different individuals

MALTA. Rabat. Catacombs of Saint Paul. Saint

Excavated church in the caverns at Inkermann, looking west. Interior view of cavern showing remains of church and two soldiers firing over stone wall at entrance. Date 1855 May 22nd

Jordan / Petra Selah Ruins
Petra: ruins of Selah, a temple excavated out of the rock Date: 1834

Pompeii / Stabian Baths
Pompeii - The Stabian Baths. Date: 1910

Tiryns - The Gallery
Minoan Hillfort complex of Tiryns. This site was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in 1884-1885, and is the subject of ongoing excavations by the German Archaeological Institute at Athens

Trier, Germany - Remains of the Roman Baths

Excavated Roman buildings, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy
View of some excavated Roman buildings on the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy

Megalithic burial mound at Knowth
Artists impression of the Megalithic burial mound at Knowth in Ireland near Newgrange beside the River Boyne, excavated by Dr George Eogan in July 1967

A troglodyte village mof troops in the field: French soldiers in their shelter trenches excavated in the side of a hill

Tresures from Ur
A restoration of a royal lyre from Ur, decorated with a gold head of a beared bull. Excavated by Leonard Wooley at Ur

Trench through a wrecked house
A trench, occupied by French soldiers, excavated through a wrecked house at Neuville-Saint-Vst

Excavated houses unearthed at Herculaneum
An ancient Roman town unearthed beneath thirty feet of solidified mud from the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D

Aerial Photograph of Ur
Air photography revealing the city of Ur. The capital city of Mesopotamia, established around 2100 B.C was most famously excavated by Mr Leonard Wooley

Hypocaust at Lincoln
An excavated hypocaust discovered at Lincoln

Greece Eleusis
Ruins at Eleusis, site associated with the mysteries, excavated by a French government-sponsored expedition

Gold at Monte Rosa 4
Miners bring the excavated ore to the refinery for crushing and extraction

Algeria / Timgad
Timgad was constructed as a bastion against the Berbers in the Aures Mountains by Emperor Trajan in AD100. The town was laid out in the classic Roman plan and is superbly preserved

Chichen Itza / Bird Relief
A bas-relief of a bird from the tomb of Chaacmol, excavated by Auguste Le Plongeon at Chichen Itza

IRAQ / UR
Excavated residential housewalls and part of the reconstructed Ziggurat

Hissarlik (Troy)
A view toward the Plateau of Ilium Novum and the site of Hissarlik, where Heinrich Schliemann excavated remains that he claimed were the foundations of Homers Troy

Caverns at Inkermann
Excavated church in the caverns at Inkerman (looking West)

Gokstad Viking Ship
Excavated in 1880, a perfectly preserved Viking ship shown after its removal from a long barrow at Gokstad, Norway

Babylon Tourist 1971
Babylon: a tourist admiring some excavated walls behind the Ishtar Gateway

Ruins of Pompeii
The Forum and Basilica in Pompeii

Housesteads Milecastle
The milecastle at Housesteads, directly on Hadrians Wall. The milecastle housed up to eight soldiers, and acted as a guard post for the Roman frontier

Hypocaust at Chesters
A hypocaust excavated at the Roman fort of Chesters, situated on Hadrians Wall at the point where it crossed the River North Tyne

West Gate at Housesteads
The Western Gate of Housesteads Fort (Borcovius). This substantially excavated fort is on a dramatic stretch of the wall perched atop limestone crags

Herculaneum Excavation
A tunnel leading to the excavated remains of Herculaneum, buried in AD79 by the pyroclastic flow from the erupting Mount Vesuvius

Reconstruction / Mycenae
An artists reconstruction of Mycenae (excavated by Schliemann in the 19th century)

Hissalik Post-Excavation
The site at Hissarlik, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann and identified as ancient Troy. Schliemanns massive slice through the deposits can be clearly seen

Site of Troy / Early C19Th
A view of the site of ancient Troy at Hissarlik in Turkey. The site was excavated by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who found gold items and large city walls

Lord Carnarvon (Ilz)
GEORGE EDWARD STANHOPE MOLYNEUX HERBERT 5th Earl of Carnarvon; excavated tomb of Tutankhamen (1922) with Howard Carter; died from a mosquito bite

Lord Carnarvon (Graphic)
GEORGE EDWARD STANHOPE MOLYNEUX HERBERT 5th Earl of Carnarvon; excavated tomb of Tutankhamen (1922) with Howard Carter; died from a mosquito bite

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