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Archaeological excavations show that, at the lowest level, the Roman engineers had placed a loose layer of stones.

like fossils would suddenly disappear.

Road works excavations

Maybe you're wondering, So, you see this ape feature, human feature, ape feature.

The archaeological subfunds have been progressively liquidated as progress continues on the adjustments of archaeological areas, sites and other spaces.

Paleontologists pray for erosion.

What were these artifacts for?

And there'd also be an extinction event like fossils would suddenly disappear.

Many other fossils are also known.

I mean fossils, cave paintings and so forth.

This is the ancient city of Pompeii.

Interpreter This is the Borghese Gallery in Rome.

This pretty much exempts monuments of the church and state.

Aren't museums fundamentally about artifacts?

The Rockefeller Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeological museum located in East Jerusalem that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in Mandate Palestine, in the 1920s and 1930s.

A zone includes strata characterised by the overlapping range of fossils.

You don't have to think about some exotic examples, or fossils.

They can also be used to date artifacts.

They also preserve artifacts for posterity.

Archaeological tools. Top photo with permission of Andrew Jamieson.

This is consistent with known archaeological data on the subject.

There have been many other notable fossil findings in the country.

The fossil record reveals a long and eventful parade of human ancestors.

From 1877 to 1892, both paleontologists used their wealth and influence to finance their own expeditions and to procure services and dinosaur bones from fossil hunters.

Archaeological treasures were found during expansion of Panama Canal.

Yesterday it was this old, ancient antique, and today it's Grandpa's picture.

Featherstonhaugh liked climbing cliffs, collecting fossils, and gathering wild bird eggs to sell.

So we collaborated with Egyptian scientists to do coring work, which you see here.

Index fossils are one of the species from the assemblage of species that characterise the zone.

Even from within an excavation in northern Kenya, we can talk to people about what we're doing.

But not everything was human, and I will give you a very exciting example.

The lake is also home to historical monasteries and churches.

Look at the state of those artifacts.

Look, Mrs Tillane, I'm not talking about memorials or monuments.

Excavations in its lower layers produced a series of radiocarbon dates as of 6000 BC.

And many, many hundreds of skulls like this have been found in archaeological sites all over the world, dating back five to 10 thousand years.

The only fossils of its species ever discovered... were found in a drag of the Hudson submarine canyons.

The archaeological sites of Birka and Hovgården, on the neighbouring island of Adelsö, make up an archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking Scandinavia and their influence on the subsequent history of Europe.

Laila Lalami is appalled with the damage some tourists bring to ancient sites.

And you can see this same principle operating in these ancient versions of the same idea.

Often a fossil would be found by a quarryman, construction worker, or road worker who would sell it to a wealthy collector, and it was the latter who was credited if the find was of scientific interest.

He adds that the limited number of sewer systems has resulted in destruction of ancient mosques.

So often when we are in the museum, and we are talking about ancient objects, we are talking about objects that had been buried but buried just because of the passage of time.

And I found my personal answer for this in those ancient comics that I was showing you.