1898 in archaeology
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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 (1898â9).
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 Narmer Palette is found by J. E. Quibell while excavating the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt.
- The site of Karakorum is identified as the former Mongol capital by Nikolai Yadrintsev, who discovers the Orkhon script during the same expedition.
- Willie Peppé, excavating a stupa at Piprahwa Kot, discovers ashes claimed to be of Gautama Buddha.
- Purported finding of the Kensington Runestone in Minnesota.
Births
- 22 August â Jaroslav Äerný, Czech-born Egyptologist (d. 1970).
- 14 September â Ernest Nash, born Ernst Nathan, German-born student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography (d. 1974).[3]
- 21 December â George E. Mylonas, Greek archaeologist (d. 1988).[4]
- 31 December â J. Eric S. Thompson, English archaeologist, student of the Maya civilization (d. 1975).[5]
- Phoebe Keef[6] (d. 1978)
Deaths
- 21 October â Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (b. 1832).