UNCOVER

[verb] [T] - to discover (something secret or hidden) or remove (something covering something else)The investigation uncovered evidence of a large-scale illegal trade in wild birds.In her biography of Taylor, she attempts to uncover the inner man.He pulled back the sheet, to uncover a beautiful 18th-century armchair.If you uncover something buried under the ground, you find it by removing the earth on top of it.Digging in her garden, she uncovered a hoard of gold dating back to the 9th century.