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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.
  • 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).

Deaths

  • March – Alexander Stuart Murray, Scottish archaeologist and museum curator (born 1841).
  • November 20 – Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (born 1832)

References