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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1925.

Excavations

  • Kaminaljuyu Mayan site, by Manuel Gamino.
  • Kültepe in Turkey, by Bedřich Hrozný.
  • Excavations in Gibraltar by Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1926).
  • October - Tin Hinan Tomb in the Sahara located and opened by Byron Khun de Prorok.
  • December - Complete excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Émile Baraize begins (continues to 1936).

Publications

  • John Beazley - Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils
  • V. Gordon Childe - The Dawn of European Civilization.
  • Aleš Hrdlička - The Old Americans.

Finds

  • July 13 - "Venus of Dolní Věstonice" at Dolní Věstonice in Moravia.
  • October 28 - Howard Carter reveals the golden death mask of Tutenkhamun.
  • Ennigaldi-Nanna's Museum at Ur is discovered by Leonard Woolley.
  • "Venus of Savignano" near Savignano sul Panaro in Italy.
  • "Galilee skull" in Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh.
  • The Aurignacian settlement site at Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt is discovered by local schoolteacher E. Thiersch.
  • Belgic pottery at Swarling, Kent.
  • Makapansgat pebble in South Africa.

Births

  • January 22 - John Davies Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2011)
  • April 24 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (d. 2006)
  • November 14 - James Mellaart, British archaeologist. (d. 2012)

Deaths

  • February 4 - Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (b. 1855).

References