1898 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1898.

Explorations

• Exploration of the site of Assur by German archaeologists begins.

Excavations

• J. E. Quibell excavates the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at
  Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt
  .
• Excavations at Bremetennacum (Ribchester), Lancashire, England (1898–9).

Finds

• March - Victor Loret discovers Amenhotep II's mummy in his KV35 tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings within the original sarcophagus, together with a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II and Ramesses III, IV and VI.^[1]
• Summer - The Bleasdale Circle, a Bronze Age timber and earthwork in Lancashire, England, is discovered by Thomas Kelsall.^[2]
• The Withypool Stone Circle (late Neolithic/early Bronze Age) on Exmoor, England, is discovered accidentally by Archibald Hamilton.
• The
  Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt
  .
• The site of
  Orkhon script
  during the same expedition.
• Willie Peppé, excavating a
  Gautama Buddha
  .
• Purported finding of the Kensington Runestone in Minnesota.

Births

• 22 August – Jaroslav Černý, Czech-born Egyptologist (d. 1970).
• 14 September – Ernest Nash, born Ernst Nathan, German-born student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography (d. 1974).^[3]
• 31 December – J. Eric S. Thompson, English archaeologist, student of the Maya civilization (d. 1975).^[4]

Deaths

• 21 October – Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (b. 1832).

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1897 in archaeology
• 1899 in archaeology

References