Correct Answer: E
Explanation:
(E) To salvage a wreck is to explore it ( by diving ) and remove valuable or historic items from it for sale or safekeeping. In the same way, to excavate a ruin is to explore it (by digging) and remove valuable or historic items from it for sale or safekeeping.
Bury: borough in NW England, part of Greater Manchester: pop. 68,000
Treasure: any person or thing considered very
valuable
Retrieve: to set right or repair (a loss, error, etc.);
make good
Excavate: to make a hole or cavity in, as by digging;
hollow out
Ruin: orig., a falling down, as of a building, wall, etc.