Excavation Collection

Llama FG 8898 Photographed at Machu Picchu
FG-8898 LLAMA At Machu Picchu, Inca site. Peru Lama glama Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Sutton Hoo treasure
A double-page spread relating to the Anglo-Saxon ship burial ground discovered at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk

Petrie at Daphne
The Pharoahs Palace at Daphne being excavated by renowned archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942) who devoted his life to studying Egyptian culture

Peru FG 8889 Michu Picchu the city below Huayna Picchu mountain
FG-8889 Peru - Machu Picchu. The city below Huayna Picchu mountain Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Italy Pompeii
The court of the piscina (bath)

Gokstad Ship, 1880
A Norwegian Viking ship excavated at Gokstad

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure of Dorak c.3000 BC - report of the finds from the excavations by James Mellaart, Assistant Director

Tautavel Man. Subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. Arago
Tautavel Man. Subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. 450.000 years old fossil. Discovered in the Arago Cave in Tautavel, France

Aerial image of Scotland, UK: The Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement
AW-6838 Aerial image of Scotland, UK: The Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement sited by the shore of Loch of Harray, Orkney Mainland

Decorations Nymphaeum Public Fountain Ancient Roman City Jerash Jordan
Nymphaeum Public Fountain, Ancient Roman City, Jerash, Jordan. Jerash came to power 300 BC to 100 AD and was a city through 600 AD. Famous Trading Center. Most original Roman City in the Middle East

Cornish tin mining, 19th century
Cornish tin mining, 19th-century artwork. Miners working in a shaft in a tin mine in Cornwall, UK. Many such excavations were near the coast and extended out under the sea for nearly a kilometre

Site of Ancient Troy excavated by Schliemann
Schliemanns excavation of the acropolis walls of ancient Troy, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Peru - Machu Picchu. The city below Huayna Picchu South America
FG-8882 PERU - MACHU PICCHU below Huayna Picchu Mountain Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Pompeii Excavation, 1751
Carlo III di Borbone visits the first excavations at Pompeii

Peat cutting, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Dinosaur tail bones
From a Palaeontology field trip in Niger, West Africa

A Lincolnshire Handicap by Heath Robinson
A race between cranes at the test ground of excavation specialists, Ruston-Bucyrus, who commissioned the ingenious Heath Robinson to draw a number of comical engineering drawings for a booklet

Theophrastus, Plato, Socrates, Epicurus, Pythagoras, and Zeno. Roman mosaic from Pompeii
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS. Theophrastus, Plato, Socrates, Epicurus, Pythagoras, and Zeno. Roman mosaic from Pompeii

NORWAY: VIKING SHIP. Medieval viking ship discovered at Sandefjord, Norway. Line engraving, 1880

Howard Carter at the excavation of Tutankhamun
The photograph shows Howard Carter and an Egyptian removing the Typhonic Couch from the Tomb of Tutankhamun

dinosaur excavation - Hadrosaur bones Hadrosaur bones in situ after excavation
FG-CB-434 dinosaur excavation - Hadrosaur bones in situ after excavation

Hissarlik (Troy) Digging
A clear example of the excavation style of Heinrich Schliemann at Hissarlik, cutting through later occupation levels, actually missing Homerian deposits!

Map of Knossos buildings surrounding the Palace, circa 1903
7310021 Map of Knossos buildings surrounding the Palace, circa 1903 by Fyfe, Theodore (1875-1945); 31x100 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Tring cutting, London & Birmingham Railway, 17 June 1837 (1839). Artist: John Cooke Bourne
Tring cutting, London & Birmingham Railway, 17 June 1837 (1839). Navvies excavating the cutting

El Castillo pyramid, Xunantunich ancient site, Cayo district, Belize

Ruins of ancient Kameiros, Kalavarda, Rhodes, Dodecanese Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Work is progressing on the Dartford Tunnel appraoch road on the Kent side. This picture was taken at Dartford, and shows the cutting made between Watling Street and Rochester Way

Clearing Rievaulx a62_01706
Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire. Two workmen loading a wagon with rubble as part of restoration and clearance works carried out in the 1920s. Photographed by Marjory L Wight, 1924-29

Ancient cups and vase
Antique cup from the Villa Mattei 1, antiqe cup from the Vatican Museum 2, porphyry cup in the Farnese Gardens 3, and terracotta vase found in the excavations of Tivoli 4

Wall fresco, historical Villa San Marco, Stabiae, Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy, Europe Wall fresco, historical Villa San Marco, Stabiae, Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy, Europe

Late Neolithic Statuettes from Hacilar in north-western Anatolia, excavated during the 1960 season by James Mellaart, Assistant Director, The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. Date: 1961

Diagram of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Photograph of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Slate Knife and bronze rings from the Iron Age cemetery at Harlyn Bay
A well shaped slate knife and bronze rings found in 1900 at the prehistoric Iron Age cemetery excavated between 1900 and 1906 at Harlyn Bay

Spindle whorls, Iron Age brooches and various rings from the Iron Age cemetery at Harlyn Bay
A collection of spindle whorls, Iron Age brooches and various rings of different sizes found at the prehistoric Iron Age cemetery excavated between 1900 and 1906 at Harlyn Bay

Bronze ring and casts of slate needles from the Iron Age cemetery at Harlyn Bay
Bronze ring and casts of slate needles found in 1900 at the prehistoric Iron Age cemetery excavated between 1900 and 1906 at Harlyn Bay

Two Iron Age brooches from the Iron Age cemetery at Harlyn Bay
Two Iron Age brooches from the cemetery which was excavated between 1900 and 1906. The photograph shows the topside of one brooch and the underside of another

Bronze ring from excavation of Iron Age cemetery at Harlyn Bay
A bronze ring from the Iron Age cemetery in Harlyn Bay, excavated between 1900 and 1906

Roman Coins, St Columb Minor, Cornwall
Five of eighty eight Roman coins dug up by C.K. Croft Andrew during the 1939 summer excavations at Trevelgue Head (also known as Porth Island), St Columb Porth

Excavation JLP01_01_172_067
M6 Motorway, M6, Stafford, Stafford, Staffordshire

M6 construction Madeley Heath JLP01_01_165_58
M6 Motorway, M6, Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

Binchester excavations 28860_048
Binchester Roman fort (Vinovia), County Durham, 2016. NZ2031

Pocklington excavations, 34003_014
Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2018. Site of an Iron Age cemetery excavated during spring/summer 2018 showing at least 12 burials as well as trackways and enclosure ditches. SE8049

Pocklington excavations, 34003_009
Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2018. Site of an Iron Age cemetery excavated during spring/summer 2018 showing at least 12 burials as well as trackways and enclosure ditches. SE8049

Rescue excavation 33592_035
Construction of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme, Cambridgeshire, near Offord Hill, 2018. Excavation work of probable henge monument. TL2168

Mosaics at House of Theseus, Kato Pathos Archaeological Park, Pathos, Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

A map of the ancient city of Rome
1 person, 17th-century, altertum, ancient cities, ancient city, ancient civilizations, ancient times, ancient world, antica, antiquity, archaeologic, archaeological, archaeological area

Architectural detail excavated in the Roman city (stone)
BLP398138 Architectural detail excavated in the Roman city (stone) by Roman, (1st century BC); Beit She an

View of Pompeii at the moment of the eruption of Vesuvius
View of Pompeii at the moment of the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D.79 showing residents fleeing in the streets near the large theatre, small theatre, Quadriportico dei Teatri, etc

The Dig at Bayley Lane, Coventry, Warwickshire, 9th May 1989

Tyne and Wear County Industrial Archaeologist Ian Ayris on some of the perfectly preserved wooden railway tracks that were buried beneath colliery spoil from the former Lambton Cokeworks in

The great excavator was walking on to the site when the 1, 100 ton dragline machine began operations on the Ewart Hill opencast coal workings at Bedlington

Fleet-Street, deepening the sewer, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Fleet-Street, deepening the sewer, 1845

Ruins of ancient Jerusalem in the Jerusalem Archeological Park below the Temple Mount in
Israel, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Archeological Park, Ruins of ancient Jerusalem below the western wall of the Temple Mount or al-Haram ash-Sharif. Jerusalem Archeological Park

Olive Mount Cutting on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831, (1945). Creator
Olive Mount Cutting on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831, (1945). Steam locomotive in the 2-mile sandstone railway cutting which opened in 1830

The Ancient Sphinx and Recent Excavations, Giza, Egypt, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
The Ancient Sphinx and Recent Excavations, Giza, Egypt, c1930s

Europe, Italy, Sardinia. The archeologic area of the ancient phoenician town of Nora near to Pula (and Cagliari)

Europe, Italy, Sardinia. The theatre in archeologic area of the ancient phoenician town of Nora near to Pula (and Cagliari)

Excavations 33963_033
A soilmark and archaeological excavations at Mitchell Hill Common, Cambridgeshire, 2019

Excavations 35123_007
Archaeogical excavations along new Southern Connector Road for New Eastern Villages Scheme, Swindon, Wiltshire, 2021

Silchester excavations 33723_036
Excavations at Calleva Roman Town, Silchester, Hampshire, 2018

Silchester excavations 33723_034
Excavations at Calleva Roman Town, Silchester, Hampshire, 2018

Dorstone Hill excavations 33675_014
Archaeological excavation on Dorstone Hill, County of Herefordshire, 2018

Dorstone Hill excavations 33675_020
Archaeological excavation on Dorstone Hill, County of Herefordshire, 2018

Excavating a junction chamber MTA01_01_13
QUEENSWAY TUNNEL, LIVERPOOL, Merseyside. Men at work on the excavation of a junction chamber during the construction of the Queensway Tunnel. The print is annotated: Contract No

Archaeological site of Altilia Sepino. Sepino Archaeological Park, Sepino, Isernia province, Molise, Italy

Sepino archaeological park, the ancient decumanus maximus. Roman paved road that crossed the city from north to south. Sepino, Isernia province, Molise, Italy

Archaeological ruins of the Roman Forum of Altilia Sepino. Sepino Archaeological Park, Sepino, Isernia province, Molise, Italy

Roman theater in the ancient city of Altilia, today Sepino in Molise, at dusk in the Archaeological Park of Sepino. Sepino, Isernia, Molise, Italy

Keele cutting JLP01_08_059934
M6 Motorway, M6, Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

Pile cap trenches JLP01_08_043769
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL, PRIORY STREET, COVENTRY. A man digging in the pile cap trench on the construction site of Coventry Cathedral, with a stone coffin behind him protruding into the trench

Binchester excavations 28860_050
Binchester Roman fort (Vinovia), County Durham, 2016. NZ2031

Siddington excavation 29616_038
Siddington, Gloucestershire, 2015

Excavations near Scarborough 28753_019
Scarborough, North Yorkshire. A probable later prehistoric/Roman settlement visible as sub-surface deposits and earthworks exposed through excavation, 2015

Pocklington excavations 28706_022
Barmby Lane, Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire. The excavation of an extensive barrow cemetery prior to construction of housing, May 2015. SE8048

Pocklington excavations 28696_014
Barmby Lane, Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire. Soilmarks of a square barrow cemetery revealed during excavation prior to housing development, April 2015. SE8048

Rescue excavation 29676_017
Bedale, Aiskew and Leeming Bar bypass, North Yorkshire. Archaeological excavation of an Iron Age/Roman ditched enclosure and construction works for the bypass, March 2015. SE2689

Construction works 28676_020
Construction works for the Bedale, Aiskew and Leeming Bar bypass, North Yorkshire, 2015. SE2789

Road building MOT01_01_34
Coast Road, Horden, County Durham. A group of workmen beside a Ruston excavator loading earth into wagons on a track, during the construction of Coast Road

Aerial view of Behular Bashor Ghor, a famous and touristic archeological site in Bogra, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Aerial view of Bhasu Bihar, a famous and touristic archeological site in Bogra, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Temple of Tyche, Side, Turkey

State Agora, Side, Turkey

Temple of Hadrian, Termessos, Turkey

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"Unearthing the Mysteries: A Journey through Time and Culture" Embark on a captivating journey as we delve into the world of excavation, uncovering hidden treasures and ancient civilizations. In Machu Picchu, Peru, the majestic Llama FG 8898 stands tall against the backdrop of this awe-inspiring archaeological site. This UNESCO World Heritage Site holds secrets waiting to be unraveled. The Sutton Hoo treasure takes us back to early medieval England, where an extraordinary burial ship revealed a trove of riches belonging to an unknown king. Each artifact tells a story of power and opulence. Petrie at Daphne transports us to Egypt, where renowned archaeologist Flinders Petrie meticulously excavated this ancient city. His discoveries shed light on the lives and customs of its inhabitants from centuries ago. Peru FG 8889 captures Michu Picchu in all its glory - a city nestled below Huayna Picchu mountain. The ruins speak volumes about the advanced engineering skills possessed by its creators. Italy's Pompeii reveals itself as a time capsule frozen in history after being buried under volcanic ash for centuries. Its well-preserved remains offer glimpses into daily life during Roman times. The Splendid Swords of the Kings showcase gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and obsidian adorning weapons fit for royalty. These magnificent swords tell tales of valor and conquests that shaped kingdoms. Tautavel Man introduces us to our distant ancestors - Homo erectus subspecies who inhabited Europe over half a million years ago. Their fossils provide valuable insights into human evolution. At Jerash in Jordan, we witness grandeur unfold at the Nymphaeum Public Fountain - an architectural marvel adorned with intricate decorations showcasing Roman craftsmanship at its finest. Schliemann's excavation at Ancient Troy brings mythology to life as he unearths remnants from Homer's epic poems. The ruins reveal layers upon layers of ancient civilizations that once thrived.