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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1907.

Explorations

  • Theodor Makridi Bey makes brief explorations at Alaca Höyük.

Excavations

  • January 6 – Tomb KV55 (almost certainly that of Akhenaten, 18th Dynasty) in Egypt's Valley of the Kings is discovered by Edward R. Ayrton.
  • March – Ludwig Borchardt begins excavating the Pyramid of Sahure in Egypt.
  • William M. Ramsay and Gertrude Bell work in Turkey.
  • John Garstang begins work at Sakçagözü (continues to 1912).
  • Ernst Sellin begins work at Tell es-Sultan, Jericho.
  • Arthur Acton begins work at the Roman legionary works depot at Holt, Wales.
  • British School at Athens begins excavations in Ritsona.

Finds

  • March – Aurel Stein discovers the Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".
  • October 21 – Jaw of Homo heidelbergensis (Mauer 1) found.
  • Medieval frescos uncovered in Fulltofta Church, Sweden.
  • Lady of Auxerre located in a storeroom of the Louvre.

Publications

  • First publication of Lokrume helmet fragment, the earliest record of a Viking Age helmet.
  • E. A. Wallis Budge – The Egyptian Sudan: its History and Monuments.
  • Aleš Hrdlička – Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America.

Miscellaneous

  • March 11 – Chaco Canyon National Monument is established.
  • Lukis Museum opens on Guernsey.
  • Howard Carter begins to work for Lord Carnarvon to supervise his excavations in Egypt.

Births

  • July 28 – Grahame Clark, English archaeologist (died 1995).
  • July 29 – Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (died 2005).
  • August 30 – Bertha "Birdie" Parker, Native American archaeologist (died 1978).

Deaths

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