1904 in archaeology

none August 2020 1904 archaeology science 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.http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/house_eternity.html House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari The Getty Conservation Institute June 12, 2017 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. Fragments of a stele containing the Hymn to Dictaean Zeus, Crete 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).Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) 122093 – National Trust Collections http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/122093 www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk May 30, 2017 en Deaths March – Alexander Stuart Murray, Scottish archaeologist and museum curator (born 1841).Alexander Murray http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/35/101035153/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography February 28, 2017 November 20 – Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (born 1832) References Archaeology Category:1900s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year