In 1988 Dr. Korfmann received a license from the Turkish government to resume excavations at the ruins of Troy and the adjacent plain.

He added that he had been "strongly urged" by Israeli antiquities officials to resume excavations this summer.

Kathleen Kenyon resumed extensive excavations between 1952 and 1958 and found no late Bronze Age defensive wall or pottery.

The papyrologist Jean Maspero (died 1915) resumed excavations in 1913, discovering a common room with several entrances.

Mr. Hedges said the expedition would be returning to Oman to resume excavations this fall.

The interim Afghan government has signed an agreement with Italian and French archaeological teams to resume excavations, Mr. Bouchenaki said.

Vladimir Blavatsky resumed excavations of Phanagoria in 1936.

Paleoanthropologists and archaeologists plan to return to Dmanisi in June to resume excavations, financed in part by the National Geographic Society.

Egyptian archeologists plan to resume excavations there in November.

Resuming excavations last year, archaeologists from Boston University, led by Dr. Norman Hammond, found the answer.