The second reason was that those were the glory years of French archeological missions.
"You're suggesting this is an archeological mission of some sort."
This was so consistently the case that it was easy to assume they were looking at an archeological mission that had occasionally strayed into other areas.
"Gul Dusac, we are on an authorized archeological mission."
In 1907 he was sent on an archeological mission to Mesopotamia.
Kerma website Official website of the Swiss archeological mission to Sudan.
In 2006, a series of sensational findings at Iruña-Veleia were announced to the press by the director of the archeological mission.
She has also researched how the origin of financing of previous archeological missions has biased the research conclusions.
Discovering and maintaing cultural monuments and supervising the works of archeological missions.
When Mariette died Maspero took on the archeological mission.