1904 in archaeology explained

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1904.

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.
• Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros in Delos, Greece.

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]
• November 20 – Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (born 1832)

Notes and References

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