Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
.
Explorations
*
Excavations
* September 11–October 25 -
Augustus Pitt Rivers excavates
Wor Barrow
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, about east of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument.
Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 has been described as "an important event in the study ...
ditch.
*
Wilhelm Dörpfeld begins his excavations of
Troy.
* House of the Silver Wedding,
Pompeii
Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...
. Built in early 1st century AD. Excavated the year of silver wedding anniversary of
Italy's King Humbert and his wife,
Margherita of Savoy, who have supported archaeological fieldwork at Pompeii.
* March 31 - The Dartmoor Exploration Committee commence their excavations of the Bronze Age settlement of
Grimspound.
Publications
* Baron J. de Baye - ''The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons''. Sonnenschein, London.
*
Gustaf Nordenskiöld - ''The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado, Their Pottery and Their Implements''. P. A. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm-Chicago.
*
Alois Riegl - ''
Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik'', George Siemens, Berlin.
Finds
*
Jacques de Morgan discovers
six boats near the Middle Kingdom pyramid of Senwosret III at
Dahshur.
* First of the
Abusir Papyri
The Abusir Papyri are the largest papyrus findings to date from the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt. The first papyri were discovered in 1893 at Abu Gorab near Abusir in northern Egypt. Their origins are dated to around the 24th century BC during ...
from Egypt.
* First finds from the
Butmir culture near
Sarajevo.
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
* August 9:
Frans Blom, Mayanist (d.
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
)
Deaths
* November 28:
Alexander Cunningham
Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly ...
, archaeologist of
India (b.
1814
Events January
* January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine.
* January 3
** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...
)
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