• Source: 1898 in archaeology

      • 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 (1898–9).


      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.
      Summer - The Bleasdale Circle, a Bronze Age timber and earthwork in Lancashire, England, is discovered by Thomas Kelsall.
      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 – Jaroslav Černý, Czech-born Egyptologist (d. 1970).
      14 September – Ernest Nash, born Ernst Nathan, German-born student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography (d. 1974).
      31 December – J. Eric S. Thompson, English archaeologist, student of the Maya civilization (d. 1975).


      Deaths


      21 October – Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (b. 1832).


      See also


      List of years in archaeology
      1897 in archaeology
      1899 in archaeology


      References

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