The profits from that mercury mine will take care of the stash problem, and we can worry about detailed archaeological excavation later; these sites won't vanish.
The tomb site was eventually resealed for later detailed excavation.
On November 22, all four returned to do a detailed excavation of the eastern part of the trench with photographs, drawings, and backfill.
It is particularly unfortunate that in the absence of detailed excavations here, we can do little but hypothesize about the expansion of this small town.
In Italy, detailed excavations continue at Pompeii.
More detailed excavations took place in 1969, 1972 and 1978 when the remains of buildings forming three sides of a courtyard were uncovered.
Two months later, a more detailed excavation commenced; it revealed a very high concentration of approximately 350 artifacts per cubic meter.
In detailed excavations of only 3 percent of the city's area, they uncovered 105 olive-oil installations, containing stone presses, ceramic storage vessels and other artifacts.
In addition, other stonework was discovered but for reasons of time and money, no detailed excavations took place leading to the production of a floorplan.
It was discovered quickly that new and more detailed excavations would be required.