2019 in archaeology explained

This page lists major events of 2019 in archaeology.

Excavations

• April 4–9 - "The Old Brig" wreck, probably a cutter, of around 1720 at Seasalter on the Kent coast of England.^[1]
• June - Major components of a Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber from 1943 are recovered from The Solent.^[2]
• Thorough archaeological survey of the wreck of tugboat Robert C. Pringle (1903) in Lake Michigan.^[3]
• Viking hall at Skaill, Westness on Rousay in Orkney.^[4]
• Boar's Head Theatre in the east end of London.^[5]

Finds

• January
  • A site corresponding to that of the Red Lion theatre of 1567 in the east end of London is located.^[6]
  • The Chew Valley Hoard of 2,528 silver coins from around the time of the Norman conquest of England (including some mules) is found in Somerset by metal detectorists Lisa Grace and Adam Staples.^[7]
  • 3 – A temple built between 1000 and 1260 CE and dedicated to Xipe Totec (Flayed Lord) is discovered in Ndachjian-Tehuacan, Puebla.^[8]
  • 24 – A collection of 20 tombs is discovered in Kom Al-Khelgan in the Nile Delta, dating back to the Middle Kingdom and the beginning of the New Kingdom, from about 1640 to 1540 B.C.^[9]
  • 25 – Discovery of the coffin of Captain Matthew Flinders (d. 1814) in London excavations in advance of High Speed 2 is announced.^[10]
  • 26 – A collection of nine tombs is discovered in Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan, dating back to the Old Kingdom.^[11]
  • 31 – Discovery of evidence of Iron Age beer making from c. 400 B.C. in Cambridgeshire, England is announced.^[12]
• February
  • A "two gamboling goats" plaque is discovered at Arslantepe, the capital of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Melid.^[13]
  • 2 – A collection of fifty mummies is discovered in Tuna el-Gebel in Minya Governorate, dating back to the Ptolemaic Kingdom.^[14]
  • 4 – Four hundred ancient stone monuments are found near Tifariti in Western Sahara, dating back to over 10,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago.^[15]
  • 7 – Roman lead coffins are discovered in Surrey, decorated with scallop shells which might refer to fertility and rebirth in the Romano-Celtic culture.^[16]
  • 13 – An ancient shipyard is found at the Tel Abu Saifi archaeological site in the northern Sinai Peninsula, which might have been the Roman fortress of Silla.^[17]
  • 27 – A criosphinx and other unfinished sculptures are discovered at the Gebel el-Silsila, dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III.^[18]
• March
  • 10 – An ancient city, probably one of the three ancient capitals of the Qin dynasty (Chinese: 废丘), is found accidentally by workers who are building the Xi'an Metro.^[19]
  • 25 – A number of Aztec sacrifices including a richly adorned jaguar dressed as a warrior at the Templo Mayor are discovered in Mexico City, which may lead to Moctezuma II's tomb.
  • 26
    • Ancient inscriptions are found on carved rocks, stelai and ostraka at the Amethyst mining site of Wadi el-Hudi, dating back to the Middle Kingdom.^[20]
    • A port used to transport stones from their quarries to the pyramid sites is located near Gebel el-Silsila on the east bank of the Nile, dating back to the Eighteenth Dynasty.^[21]
  • 28 – Discovery of remains of a B-24 bomber that crashed into the sea near Bermuda in 1945 is announced.^[22]
  • 30 – A 14-year-old boy in Glasgow, Scotland, discovers long-lost medieval stone carvings in a cemetery.^[23]
• April
  • 1 – French archaeologists in Iraqi Kurdistan discover the remains of a lost city at Kunara, near the Zagros Mountains.^[24]
  • 3 – Announcements of discoveries of:
    • Bones at Hirado, Nagasaki in Japan believed to belong to William Adams (died 1620).^[25]
    • The wreck of a ship of about 1540 in the Dutch North Sea loaded with copper plates with marks of the Fugger family, found by chance in a salvage operation.^[26]
  • 5 – A tomb is discovered at Al-Dayabat archaeological site in Sohag Governorate, dating back to the Ptolemaic era.^[27]
  • 10 – A new species of hominin, Homo luzonensis, is announced as being found in Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines. At 67,000 years old, these are the oldest hominin remains found in the archipelago.^[28]
  • 13 – A 4,000-year-old tomb of an influential person named 'Khuwy' is found in Saqqara, dating back to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt.^[29]
  • Eastbourne wreck site discovered off the south coast of England, identified in 2023 as Dutch warship Klein Hollandia (sank 1672).^[30]
• May
  • 4 – Discovery of the tomb of two officials near the Giza pyramid complex, dating back to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, is announced.^[31]
  • 14 – An ancient desert fortress is found at Tell El-Kadwa, Sinai Peninsula, dating back to the reign of Psamtik I.^[32]
  • 18 – Discovery of a coin of the short-lived Roman usurper Laelianus in Cambridgeshire, England is announced.^[33]
  • 21 – A 150adj=midNaNadj=mid by 50adj=midNaNadj=mid Roman building is uncovered at Abbey Farm in Faversham, England.^[34]
  • 22
    • The Alabama Historical Commission announces that the wreck of the slave ship Clotilda (scuttled 1860) was found in the Mobile River a year ago.^{[35] [36] [37]}
    • A 17th century fort is discovered in Stornoway in the Western Isles of Scotland.^[38]
  • 24
    • Identification of a 2,300-year-old bark shield dating back to the Iron Age, found in 2015 at the Everards Meadows site south of Leicester in England, is announced.^[39]
    • A marching camp used by the Roman legions, dating back to the first century during the reign of governor Agricola, is found in Ayrshire.^[40]
• June
  • American submarine (sunk 1944) is located by a private research group, Lost 52 Project, off the coast of Okinawa (Japan).^[41]
  • 8 – A 5,000-year-old underground city is discovered in Çalış, Avanos, Nevşehir Province, Cappadocia.^[42]
  • 13 – 8,000-year-old carvings by Khoisan people are discovered at the Vredefort impact structure.^[43]
  • 15–16 – Remains of the Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway (1722) are excavated near Cockenzie and Port Seton in Scotland.^[44]
  • 22 – A Byzantine baptismal font is discovered in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem.^[45]
  • 27 – 2,000 year-old mummies are found in Egypt, at Saqqara, in the area near Djoser Pyramid; the burial site dates back approximately to between the 6th century BC and the 1st century AD.^[46]
  • 28 – A 3,400-year-old Bronze Age palace is found in Kemune, Iraqi Kurdistan; it dates back to the Mittani Empire.^[47]
• July
  • 17 – A 9,000-year-old city is discovered near Motza, west of Jerusalem; it dates back to the Neolithic period.^[48]
  • 18
    • A 1,200-year-old mosque is found near Rahat, Negev Desert.^[49]
    • The Church of the Apostles, Peter and Andrew, is found in the village of Bethsaida.^[50]
  • 23 – The wreck of is discovered in Lake Huron.^[51]
  • 26 – A Greek temple and treasure-laden ships are found at the sunken city of Heracleion, Egypt.^[52]
  • 31 – Remains of the Graeco-Roman Senate are discovered in Pelusium, Egypt.^[53]
  • The wreck of is discovered in Lake Superior.^{[54] [55]}
• August
  • 20 – A 3,800-year-old mural is uncovered at the Vichama site, Huaura Province, north of Lima, Peru.^[56]
  • 28 – The 5,000-year-old Dolmen de Guadalperal is uncovered due to seasonal drought of the Valdecañas reservoir.^[57]
• September
  • 5 – The wreck of, a World War I submarine, is found south of Baja California.
  • 20 – A 2,200-year-old lion statue is found in Assos, Çanakkale Province, Turkey.^[58]
  • 30 – A temple is unearthed in Kom Ishqau, Egypt, dating back to the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator.^[59]
  • A gold half-angel coin from the reign of Richard II of England is found near Buckingham.^[60]
• October
  • 7 – A 5,000-year-old Bronze Age Canaanite settlement is discovered at En Esur, Israel.^[61]
  • 11 – An ancient "industrial area" is uncovered in Luxor, which highlights the tools and techniques used to produce the royal coffins.^[62]
  • 19 – Thirty ancient coffins are found in El-Assasif near Luxor, Egypt, from the earlier Twenty-second Dynasty.^[63]
  • 23 – An ancient church with intricate mosaics is found in Beit Shemesh, Israel, built during the reign of Justinian I.^[64]
  • 30
    • The discovery during the summer of the wreck of British submarine, sunk in 1942 off Malta, is announced.^[65]
    • The discovery of the deepest known wreck, American destroyer, sunk in 1944 in the Battle off Samar, is announced.^[66]
  • 31
    • A 25adj=midNaNadj=mid ring cairn, dating back to the Bronze Age, is found near Tidenham, Gloucestershire.^[67]
    • An 11,000-year-old ancient temple, dating back to the Neolithic era, is unearthed in Dargeçit, Turkey.^[68]
• November
  • 2 – One of Britain's first cities is discovered at Blick Mead on Salisbury Plain, probably occupied by hunter-gatherers, who built Stonehenge, 10,000 years ago.^[69]
  • 5 – A Roman-era catacomb is discovered in Saqqara, dating between the first and second century AD.^[70]
  • 8
    • An ancient shipwreck is found in the Volga river near Vinnovka, Samara, which is over 600 years old.^[71]
    • Two shipwrecks are discovered in the Baltic Sea, linked to Sweden's Vasa, dating back to the 17th century.^[72]
  • 20 – Announcements of the discoveries of:
    • A 3,000-year-old megalithic temple used by a 'water cult' at the Huaca El Toro, Oyotún District, Zaña Valley, Peru.^[73]
    • A cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk at the Denisova Cave, dating back to approximately 45,000 years ago.^[74]
  • 21 – Announcement that an 8,000-year-old monument has been found at Uğurlu-Zeytinlik, Imbros.^[75]
  • 23 – Mummified animals are announced to have been discovered a year earlier at Saqqara near Cairo, including cats, crocodiles, cobras, birds, lion cubs, and a large scarab.^[76]
  • 25 – Discovery of 45 tombs and a settlement in Al-Mudhaibi, Ash Sharqiyah, Oman, dating back to the Iron Age, is announced.^[77]
• December
  • 5 – Location of wreck of (sunk in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914) by a team led by Mensun Bound is reported.^{[78] [79]}
  • 11 – A red granite bust of Ramesses II is discovered in Giza.^[80]
  • 12 – Dating of a cave painting of a hunting scene in Sulawesi, Indonesia, to at least 43,900 years BP, is announced. It is the oldest known example of human art.^[81]
  • 17 – Two Bronze Age tombs containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts are discovered in Pylos, Greece.^[82]
  • 18
    • Discovery of an anchor in the Gulf of Mexico consistent with the fleet of Hernán Cortés is reported.^[83]
    • A 7,000-year-old wall against sea level rise is uncovered at the submerged Tel Hreiz on Carmel Coast, near Haifa, Israel.^[84]
  • 25 – Roman and Anglo-Saxon artefacts are discovered in Baginton, England.^[85]
  • 27 – An ancient slab is found in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia.^[86]
  • 30 – A hoard of gold coins dating back to the 9th century is unearthed in Yavneh, Israel, including a dinar minted during the reign of Harun al-Rashid.^[87]

Events

• January 21 - A recently "discovered" recumbent stone circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, thought to date from around 4,000 years BP, is shown to be about 20 years old.^[88]
• March 29 - Announcement that Norway will return Easter Island artefacts taken by Thor Heyerdahl fifty years ago.^[89]
• April 18 - Announcement that a bone found in 1964 at Fishbourne Roman Palace has been identified as that of a rabbit (likely a pet) from the 1st century AD, making it the oldest found in England.^[90]
• June 3 - Announcement that designated sunken materiel on the south coast of England lost in training for the 1944 Normandy landings has been scheduled for legal protection.^[91]
• July - A report by the United States National Park Service concludes that 22 archaeological sites in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument are threatened by the LP construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
• July 2 - A 1,300-year old, one-piece floor mosaic, found in Hatay in 2010, is opened to visitors.^[92]
• July 22 - Announcement that a Baltic Sea wreck, first located in 2009, has been identified earlier in the year as belonging to a date around 1500 and in an excellent state of preservation.^[93]
• August 29 - Stone tools and animal bones that are 16,600 years old have been found near the Salmon River near Cottonwood, Idaho. These may be the oldest human remains found in the Americas.
• October 3 - Finland agrees to return Native American remains and other artifacts stolen in 1891 to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
• October 7 - Syria places a 5th-century mosaic from the region between Hama and Idlib on display at the National Museum of Damascus after its return to the country having been smuggled to Canada in the late 1990s.^[94]
• November 11
  • Archaeologists in Iceland map shipwrecks near Eyrarbakki, which consist of 400 English, Dutch, Danish, Basque, and Icelandic vessels lost between A.D. 1200 and 1920.^[95]
  • Cadw announces that the wreck of an American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter which crashed in September 1942 off the coast of Wales near Harlech is the first legally designated military aircraft crash site in the United Kingdom to be scheduled for legal protection for its historic and archaeological interest.^[96]
• November 18 - Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic to give international protection to the 1912 wreck of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic comes into effect.^[97]
• November 21 - Welsh metal detectorists are convicted of stealing and concealing a large Viking and Anglo-Saxon coin and jewellery hoard found in June 2015 at Eye, Herefordshire on the English border.^[98]
• November 27 - A replica Anglo-Saxon house adjacent to the site of the foundations on which it is based excavated in 2016 at Long Wittenham in the Thames Valley of England is opened.^[99]

Deaths

• January 13 - Miguel Civil, Sumerologist (born 1926)^[100]
• January 14 - Rainer Stadelmann, German Egyptologist (born 1933)^[101]
• January 16 - Barbara Tsakirgis, American archaeologist (born 1954)^[102]
• January 18 - Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (born 1938)
• March 10 - Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist (born 1952)
• March 20 - Ralph Solecki, American archaeologist (born 1917)^[103]
• May 27 - Judith McKenzie, Australian archaeologist (born 1957)^[104]

See also

• List of years in archaeology

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archaeologists unearth 18th century shipwreck off Seasalter near Whitstable. Lydia. Chantler-Hicks. 2019-04-12. KentOnline. 2021-01-23.
2. Web site: Torpedo bomber recovered from Solent after 75 years. 2019-06-11. 2023-12-30. Royal Navy.
3. Web site: 2021. Robert C. Pringle (1903). 2021-01-06. Wisconsin Shipwrecks. Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, WI.
4. News: Viking hall where powerful chieftain may have quaffed an ale is uncovered. Metro. London. 2019-08-07. 7.
5. Web site: Excavation of Shakespearean-era 'theatre pub' The Boar's Head Playhouse begins. MOLA. 2019-09-25. 2024-07-01.
6. News: Archaeologists 'find London's earliest theatre'. BBC News. 2020-06-10. 2020-06-10.
7. Web site: Largest coin hoard of the post-Conquest period found near Somerset. 2019-08-28. Roman Baths (Bath). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190828155623/https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/news/largest-coin-hoard-post-conquest-period-found-near-somerset. 2019-08-28. 2019-08-28.
8. News: Pre-Aztec temple to 'Flayed Lord' fertility god depicted as skinned human corpse discovered in Mexico. https://web.archive.org/web/20190103235918/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-temple-fertility-god-flayed-lord-human-corpse-indian-ruins-popoloca-puebla-a8709596.html . 2019-01-03 . limited . live. Jan 3, 2019. March 10, 2019. Independent.
9. Web site: 3,500-Year-Old Tombs Unearthed in Egypt's Nile Delta. Archaeology.org. 2019-01-24.
10. News: Addley. Esther. Grave of Matthew Flinders discovered after 200 years near London station. The Guardian. London. 2019-01-25. 2019-01-25.
11. Web site: Nine Old Kingdom tombs discovered in Upper Egypt's Aswan. Ahram.org. 2019-01-26.
12. News: Haroon. Siddique. Early pint: evidence of 'first British beer' found in Cambridgeshire. The Guardian. London. 2019-02-01. 2019-01-31.
13. Web site: Artifact. Archaeology.org.
14. Web site: Egypt mummies: New tombs found in Minya. BBC News. 2019-02-02.
15. Web site: Stone Monuments in Western Sahara Record How People Adapted to Shifting Climate. Atlas Obscura. 2019-02-04.
16. Web site: Roman lead coffins recovered in Surrey. Archaeology.co.uk. 2019-02-07.
17. Web site: Ancient workshop for construction of boats uncovered in Sinai. Ahram Online. 2019-02-13.
18. Web site: Ram-Headed Sphinx Abandoned by King Tut's Grandfather Found in Egypt. Live Science. 2019-02-27.
19. News: China's Xi'an builds modernity while preserving historical legacy. en.people.cn. 14 March 2019.
20. Web site: 100 Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site. Live Science. 26 March 2019.
21. Web site: Egypt discovers ancient port used by temple builders. City News 1130. 26 March 2019.
22. Web site: Wreck of US WWII B-24 bomber discovered 74 years after it plunged into the sea off Bermuda. Fox News. March 28, 2019. April 1, 2019. Rogers. James.
23. Web site: Schoolboy discovers long-lost 1,000-year old stone monuments from ancient kingdom. Fox News. March 30, 2019. April 1, 2019. Rogers. James.
24. Web site: Mysterious 4,000-year-old city discovered. Fox News. April 1, 2019. April 1, 2019. Rogers. James.
25. News: Richard Lloyd. Parry. Final resting place of sailor who inspired TV's Shogun. The Times. London. 72811. 2019-04-03. 3.
26. Web site: Dutch container search reveals rare ancient shipwreck. CNA. 2019-04-04. 2019-04-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20190403222306/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/dutch-container-search-reveals-rare-ancient-shipwreck--11409990. 2019-04-03. dead.
27. Web site: In Photos: Ptolemaic-era tomb discovered in Upper Egypt's Sohag. Ahram Online. 5 April 2019.
28. Web site: A mysterious species related to humans has been discovered. CNN. April 10, 2019. April 10, 2019.
29. Web site: Egyptian antiquities minister takes ambassadors to visit newly discovered tomb in Saqqara. Ahram Online. 13 April 2019.
30. Web site: Mark Beattie. Edwards. The Klein Hollandia: Discovering a 17th-century Dutch warship off Eastbourne. The Past. 2023-12-07. 2023-12-16.
31. Web site: Ancient tomb discovered in Egypt dating back 2,500 years. Sky News. 2019-05-04. 2019-05-04.
32. News: Archaeological team uncovers ancient fortress towers in North Sinai. Egypt Independent. 2019-05-14.
33. Web site: 'Incredibly rare' Roman coin found during A14 roadworks. 2019-05-18. 2019-05-20. BBC News.
34. News: Roman building uncovered at Abbey Farm in Faversham by Kent Archaeological Field School. Kent Online. 21 May 2019.
35. News: Koplowitz. Howard. Clotilda, the last American slave ship, found in Alabama, Historical Commission says. AL.com. 2019-05-22. 2019-05-22.
36. News: Officials: Last slave ship from Africa ID'd on Alabama coast. WALA-TV. 2019-05-22. 2019-05-22.
37. Web site: Alabama Historians Say The Last Known Slave Ship To U.S. Has Been Found. NPR. 2019-05-22. 2019-05-22. Ingber. Sasha.
38. News: Building work uncovers 17th Century fort in Stornoway. BBC News. 22 May 2019.
39. News: 2,300-Year-Old Bark Shield Showcases a Previously Unknown Iron Age Technology. Gizmodo. 24 May 2019.
40. News: Archaeologists find remains of the Roman invasion of Ayrshire. The Herald. 24 May 2019.
41. Web site: Fieldstadt. Elisha. WWII submarine USS Grayback, missing 75 years, discovered off coast of Japan. NBC News. 2019-11-11. 2019-11-11.
42. Web site: Mysterious flooding leads to discovery of 5,000-year-old underground city in Turkey's Cappadocia. Daily Sabah. 8 June 2019.
43. Web site: 8,000-year-old carvings by ancient humans discovered in world's biggest asteroid impact crater. Newsweek. 13 June 2019.
44. Web site: 1722 Waggonway found!. The Waggonway Project. 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group. 2019-06-18. 2019-07-10. 2019-07-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20190710163258/https://www.1722waggonway.co.uk/single-post/2019/06/18/1722-Waggonway-found. dead.
45. Web site: Byzantine baptismal font possibly discovered in West Bank. Sky News. 22 June 2019.
46. Web site: S.A. Telewizja Polska. Polish archeologists uncover Egyptian mummies. 2020-06-28. polandin.com. en.
47. Web site: Archaeologists uncover ancient palace of the Mittani Empire in Kurdistan Region. Kurdistan24. 28 June 2019.
48. Web site: Archaeology's Neolithic 'big bang' moment found in a 9,000-year-old city near Jerusalem. ABC News. 17 July 2019.
49. Web site: Israel mosque find: Archaeologists unearth 1,200-year-old ruins in desert. BBC News. 18 July 2019.
50. Web site: Church of the Apostles Found by Sea of Galilee, Archaeologists Claim. Haaretz. 18 July 2019.
51. Web site: 110-year-old Great Lakes Shipwreck Mystery Solved. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923192357/https://www.sooeveningnews.com/news/20191012/110-year-old-great-lakes-shipwreck-mystery-solved#close. dead. 2020-09-23. Sault Ste. Marie Evening News. December 4, 2020.
52. Web site: Mysterious temple discovered in the ruins of sunken ancient city. 9news.com. 26 July 2019.
53. Web site: Remains of Graeco-Roman Senate building uncovered in North Sinai. Egypt Independent. 31 July 2019.
54. Web site: 118 years after ship sank in Lake Superior gale, searchers locate wreck 825 feet beneath the surface. MPR News. 22 September 2019 . October 9, 2019.
55. Web site: Shipwreck hunters discover 118-year-old sunken freighter in Lake Superior. Detroit Free Press. October 9, 2019.
56. Web site: Mural from 3,800 years ago unveiled by Peru archaeologists. BBC News. 20 August 2019.
57. Web site: 'Spanish Stonehenge': Exceptional drought uncovers 5,000-year-old Dolmen de Guadalperal. Euronews. 28 August 2019.
58. Web site: Lion statue of Hellenistic period found. Hurriyet Daily News. 20 September 2019.
59. Web site: Ptolemy IV Philopator's temple unearthed in Sohag. Daily News Egypt. 30 September 2019 .
60. Display in Buckingham Old Gaol.
61. Web site: Bronze Age 'New York' discovered, Israeli archaeologists say. DW. 7 October 2019.
62. Web site: Egyptian archeologists uncover ancient 'industrial area' filled with royal artifacts. CNN. 11 October 2019.
63. Web site: Archaeologists discover 30 ancient coffins in Luxor. The Guardian. 19 October 2019.
64. Web site: Ancient Church Dedicated to Mysterious Martyr Found Near Jerusalem. Haaretz. 23 October 2019.
65. Web site: Submarine that disappeared mysteriously in World War II found after 77 years. 2019-11-01. CNN. 2019-11-03.
66. News: US WWII shipwreck discovered in the Philippine Sea is the deepest ever found. James. Rogers. 2019-10-30. Fox News.
67. Web site: Bronze Age monument discovered in Forest of Dean. BBC. 31 October 2019.
68. Web site: 11,000-year-old ancient temple found in eastern Turkey. Yeni Şafak. 31 October 2019.
69. News: Britain's first city discovered as archaeologists say it was home of people who built Stonehenge. The Telegraph. 2 November 2019. Knapton. Sarah.
70. Web site: Roman-Era Catacomb Discovered in Saqqara. Sada Elbalad. 5 November 2019.
71. Web site: An ancient boat was found near Samara. phys.org. 8 November 2019.
72. Web site: 17th century warships linked to Sweden's historic Vasa found. The Guardian. 8 November 2019.
73. Web site: Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Megalithic Temple Used by a 'Water Cult'. Live Science. 20 November 2019.
74. Web site: Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave. The Siberian Times. 20 November 2019.
75. Web site: Turkey: 8,000-year old monument unearthed. aa.com. 21 November 2019.
76. Web site: Egypt animal mummies showcased at Saqqara near Cairo. BBC. 23 November 2019.
77. Web site: New archeological site discovered in Oman. Times of Oman. 25 November 2019.
78. News: Discovery of WW1 German Battlecruiser SMS Scharnhorst in Falklands waters. Merco Press. 2019-12-05. 2019-12-07.
79. News: German WWI wreck Scharnhorst discovered off Falklands. BBC News. 2019-12-05. 2019-12-07.
80. Web site: Unique red granite bust of Ramses II unearthed on private land in Giza. ahram.org. 11 December 2019.
81. Web site: An Indonesian cave painting is at least 43,900 years old and portrays part-human/part-animal hunters. 2019-12-12. 2019-12-12.
82. Web site: UC discovers princely tombs near 'Griffin Warrior'. uc.edu. 17 December 2019.
83. Kristin. Romey. New clue surfaces in underwater hunt for conquistador's lost ships. https://web.archive.org/web/20181220041334/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/12/exclusive-clue-underwater-hunt-conquistador-lost-ships-archaeology/. dead. December 20, 2018. 2019-12-18. 2019-12-21. National Geographic.
84. Ehud Galili. Jonathan Benjamin. Vered Eshed. Baruch Rosen. John McCarthy. Liora Kolska Horwitz. A submerged 7000-year-old village and seawall demonstrate earliest known coastal defence against sea-level rise. PLOS ONE. 18 December 2019. 14. 12. e0222560. 10.1371/journal.pone.0222560. 31851675. 6919572. 2019PLoSO..1422560G . free.
85. Web site: Roman and Anglo-Saxon artefacts found in Baginton. BBC. 25 December 2019.
86. Web site: Ancient slab unearthed in Karabük. Hurriyet Daily News. 27 December 2019.
87. Web site: Archaeologists Find Hoard of Islamic Coins in Israel: 'It's Like a Hanukkah Present'. Haaretz. 30 December 2019.
88. Web site: 'Ancient' Aberdeenshire stone circle found to be replica. BBC News. 2019-01-21. 2019-01-21.
89. Web site: Norway to return thousands of Easter Island artifacts taken by explorer Thor Heyerdahl. 29 March 2019. Fox News. April 1, 2019.
90. News: Evidence of rabbits in UK in Roman times, say academics. BBC News. 2019-04-18. 2021-11-06.
91. Web site: Remembering D-Day - Second World War Sites Given Protection. Historic England. 2019-06-03. 2019-11-16.
92. Web site: Turkey to open 'world's largest' intact mosaic this year. ahvalnews.com. 3 July 2019.
93. Web site: A 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Has Turned Up Perfectly Intact on Bottom of The Baltic Sea. Michelle. Starr. 2019-07-23. 2019-07-25. sciencealert.
94. Web site: Syria retrieves historic mosaic painting from Canada . https://web.archive.org/web/20200912221943/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/07/c_138454115_2.htm . dead . September 12, 2020 . Xinhuanet . 7 October 2019 .
95. Web site: Sunken Ships Reveal Iceland's Trading History. Iceland Review. 11 November 2019.
96. Web site: 'Harlech P-38' — scheduled for its historic importance and future protection. 2019-11-11. Cadw. 2019-11-16.
97. Web site: RMS Titanic wreck to be protected under UK and US agreement. BBC News. 2020-01-21. 2020-01-25.
98. Web site: Detectorists stole Viking hoard that 'rewrites history'. BBC News. 2019-11-21. 2019-11-21.
99. Web site: House of Wessex Anglo-Saxon building opens. BBC News. 2019-11-28. 2019-11-29.
100. Web site: Miguel Civil, expert on Sumerian language who collaborated on ancient beer recipe, dies at 92 . Chicago Tribune . 1 February 2019 .
101. News: Obituary Prof. Dr. Rainer Stadelmann. German Archaeological Institute. 2019-01-17. 2019-01-17.
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