Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1904.
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Events
edit- March 18 – Ancient Monuments Preservation Act 1904 passed in British India.
Explorations
edit- Leo Frobenius makes an expedition to the Kasai region of the Belgian Congo.
Excavations
edit- 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
edit- 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.
- Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros in Delos, Greece.
Publications
edit- Rudolf Ernst Brünnow and Alfred von Domaszewski begin publication of Die Provincia Arabia, containing a detailed description of Petra.
Births
edit- 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
edit- March – Alexander Stuart Murray, Scottish archaeologist and museum curator (born 1841).[3]
- November 20 – Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (born 1832)
References
edit- ^ "House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari". The Getty Conservation Institute. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ^ "Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) 122093 – National Trust Collections". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "Alexander Murray". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved February 28, 2017.