1904 in archaeology

The year 1904 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Events

• March 18 - Ancient Monuments Preservation Act 1904 passed in British India.

Explorations

• Leo Frobenius makes an expedition to the Kasai region of the Belgian Congo.

Excavations

• Edward Herbert Thompson dredges artifacts from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza.
• First formal excavations at Aphrodisias in Anatolia, by French railroad engineer Paul Augustin Gaudin, begin.
• Oseberg ship.

Finds

• Tomb of Nefertari discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli.[1]
• Winter 1904–5 - Inscription in a form of Proto-Sinaitic script, dated to the mid-19th century BCE, discovered in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie.
• Approximate date - Broe helmet.

Publications

• Rudolf Ernst Brünnow and Alfred von Domaszewski begin publication of Die Provincia Arabia, containing a detailed description of Petra.

Births

• January 19 - Pei Wenzhong, founding father of Chinese anthropology (died 1982).
• February 11 - Alan Sorrell, English archaeological illustrator (died 1974).
• May 6 - Max Mallowan, English archaeologist (died 1978).[2]

Deaths

• March - Alexander Stuart Murray, Scottish archaeologist and museum curator (born 1841).[3]

References

1. "House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari". The Getty Conservation Institute. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
2. "Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) 122093 - National Trust Collections". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
3. "Alexander Murray". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 28 February 2017.