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1930 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1930. Explorations Excavations * Vere Gordon Childe completes excavations at Skara Brae (begun in 1927). * John Garstang begins excavations at Jericho (continue to 1936). * Francis Llewellyn Griffith excavates at Kawa (Sudan). * Flinders Petrie begins excavations at Tall al-Ajjul (continue to 1934). Finds * August 5 - Remains of S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 discovered. * First fragments from an ancient boat harbour found on the bank of the Suojoki river in central Finland (one boat from site later dated to 13th century). Publications * Aleš Hrdlička - ''The Skeletal Remains of Early Man''. Miscellaneous * September 11 - Max Mallowan marries Agatha Christie. * Max von Oppenheim opens a private museum of his Near Eastern archaeological finds in Berlin. * Edwin Smith Papyrus first translated. Births *March 25 - John M. Coles, English prehistorian (d. 2020) *June 13 - Paul Veyne, Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1934. Explorations * Maya site of Becan rediscovered by archaeologists Karl Ruppert and John Denison. Excavations * Poznań University project at Biskupin begins, led by Józef Kostrzewski and Zdzisław Rajewski. * Snaketown, Arizona, United States, under direction of Harold S. Galdwin. * Kennet Avenue, by Alexander Keiller (continues to 1935). * Maiden Castle, Dorset, by Mortimer Wheeler (continues to 1937). * Persepolis, by Erich Schmidt (continues to 1939). * Qafzeh cave excavations at Mount Precipice begin, led by René Neuville, uncovering remains of Hominidae dated to ca. 95,000 years BP. * The site of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, accidentally discovered this year, is investigated by Giuseppe Moretti. * Viking Age ruins at Igaliku in Greenland, by Aage Roussell, Eigil Knuth and Poul Nørlund. Finds * 2 January: Warka Vase found at Uruk. * The ''Statue of Ebih-Il'' is unearthed in Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Years In Archaeology
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edda Bresciani
Edda Bresciani (23 September 1930 – 29 November 2020) was an Italian Egyptology, Egyptologist. Life Bresciani was born in Lucca, and graduated in 1955 from the University of Pisa. She excavated at several places in Egypt and is mainly known for her work at several sites in the Faiyum, most notably the temple of Medinet Maadi. She also found and excavated a Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Middle Kingdom cemetery at Khelua. In 1974 the University of Pisa appointed Bresciani at the lead of an excavation campaign at Saqqara; here she studied the 26th Dynasty tomb of the Vizier (Ancient Egypt), vizier Bakenrenef (vizier), Bakenrenef. In 1978 she founded the still–running ''Egitto e Vicino Oriente'', the Egyptological journal of the University. She also performed excavations at the "Temple of Million Years" of Thutmose IV at Thebes, Egypt, Thebes. A proficient demotist, Bresciani published many books on her work. She earned a medal for meritorious science and culture in May 1996, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Veyne
Paul Veyne (; 13 June 1930 – 29 September 2022) was a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist of Ancient Rome. A student of the École Normale Supérieure and member of the École française de Rome, he was honorary professor at the Collège de France. Biography Veyne was born in Aix-en-Provence. From a background which he described as "uncultured", he took up archaeology and history by chance, at the age of eight, when he discovered a piece of an amphora on a Celtic site close to the village of Cavaillon. He developed a particular interest in Roman civilization since it was the best-known in the environment in which he grew up. The family having moved to Lille, he assiduously studied the Roman collections of the archaeological museum there, where he received guidance from the curator. He maintains that his interest in the Greeks and Romans stems not from any humanist impulse or any specific admiration, but just from his chance discovery as a child. Having come to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Archaeology
This page lists major events of 2020 in archaeology. Excavations * January–August – Site of a sacristy at Westminster Abbey in London, a 13th century monastic burial site, excavated; remains of hundreds of bodies located. * January 29 – NZR V class steam locomotive no. 127 (1885) is recovered from the Ōreti River in New Zealand by the Lumsden Heritage Trust. * February – Mexico and Spain plan to search for the remains of ''Nuestra Señora de Juncal'' ("Our Lady of Juncal") ship, which sank off the coast of Mexico in 1631. * March – Excavations at Richborough Castle in England start to uncover the Roman amphitheatre hidden under a mound here. * May – Excavations in a hillfort at Tap o' Noth near Rhynie, Aberdeenshire in Scotland identify it as one of the largest ancient settlements ever discovered in the country. * June 27 – Excavation of a Viking ship burial at Gjellestad near Halden in Norway located in 2018 begins. * July: ** Divers find an 11,000-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coles (historian)
John Morton Coles, FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot (25 March 1930 – 14 October 2020) was a Canadian–British archaeologist and academic. Life and career Coles was born in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada on 25 March 1930. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1952 before working in commerce for 3 years. He began studying archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 1955 before moving to the University of Edinburgh to complete his PhD in 1957. He began teaching at the University of Cambridge in 1960 and was Director of Studies to Prince Charles while the prince studied at Trinity College. He became professor of European Prehistory in 1980 and was a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1963 until his death. Coles married archaeologist Bryony Coles in 1985. He left the University of Cambridge in 1986 and they moved to Devon. The couple did extensive research into the Somerset Levels which resulted in the establishment of a new branch of archaeology focusing on wetlands an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Smith Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text, named after Edwin Smith who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma. From a cited quotation in another text, it may have been known to ancient surgeons as the "Secret Book of the Physician". This document, which may have been a manual of military surgery, describes 48 cases of injuries, fractures, wounds, dislocations and tumors. It dates to Dynasties 16– 17 of the Second Intermediate Period in ancient Egypt, 1600 BCE. The papyrus is unique among the four principal medical papyri in existence that survive today. While other papyri, such as the Ebers Papyrus and London Medical Papyrus, are medical texts based in magic, the Edwin Smith Papyrus presents a rational and scientific approach to medicine in ancient Egypt, in which medicine and magic do not conflict. Magic would be more prevalent had the cases of illness been mysterious, such as internal disease. The Edwin Smith papyrus is a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the historical Fertile Crescent, and later the Levant region. It also comprises Turkey (both Anatolia and East Thrace) and Egypt (mostly located in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula being in Asia). Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. According to the National Geographic Society, the terms ''Near East'' and ''Middle East'' denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey". In 1997, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Von Oppenheim
Baron Max von Oppenheim (15 July 1860, in Cologne – 17 November 1946, in Landshut) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911–13 and again in 1927–29.Kim Benzel, Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin', v. 77, no. 2 (2019) 10. Bringing many of his finds to Berlin, he exhibited them in a private museum (The Tell Halaf Museum) in 1931. This was destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II. However, most of the findings were recently restored and have been exhibited again at Berlin and Bonn. Oppenheim was a controversial figure before and during World War I because he was considered a spy by the French and British. He did in fact engage in anti-Allied propaganda, aimed at stirring up the Muslim populations of the Allied-controlled territories agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. ''Guinness World Records'' lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
