Although he already showed a high interest in starting excavations in this area, he still needed the official support from Berlin.

Langdon was sufficiently impressed, visited the site and started excavations in 1926.

Archeologists started excavations at the Maui site in mid-1987 and are now about 80 percent finished.

If we find anything we can have a crew out there by dawn ready to start excavations.

The process may take several months, and a single pair may start several excavations before finding a tree or stump with wood of the right consistency.

Charles Warren starts first excavations of Jericho.

Kenneth Brown of the University of Houston started major excavations at Q'umarkaj in 1977.

When the staff left, the local population from the surrounding villages started large-scale excavations on the camp site, searching for gold and valuables.

Repnikov published his observations in 1900 but it was not until 1929 that Vladimir Ravdonikas started extensive excavations of the site.

Watkins also started excavations at Jamestown, Virginia in 1955.