1922 in archaeology

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1922 in archaeology

Contents 1 Excavations 2 Explorations 3 Finds 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] Excavations

• 4 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb.
• First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill
• Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Charles Leonard Woolley begin
• Excavations at Euphrates, site of Dura-Europos by Franz Cumont.

[edit] Explorations

• Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford

[edit] Finds

• Venus of Lespugue

[edit] Births

• 12 July: Michael Ventris, co-decypherer of Linear B
• 19 November: Yuri Knorosov, epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics
• Kim Won-yong, Father of Korean Archaeology and Seoul National University professor (d. 1993)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] See also

• List of years in archaeology