Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

Explorations

Excavations

* February 12 -

Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the K ...

opens the

sarcophagus A sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word ''sarcophagus'' comes from the Greek ...

of Tutankhamun. Two days later, he closes the tomb in protest against the actions of the Egyptian authorities. * March 1 - Discovery and subsequent start of excavations at Glozel. * Work at

Dolní Věstonice Dolní Věstonice (german: Unterwisternitz) is a municipality and village in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants. It is known for the eponymous archaeological site. Geography Dolní ...

in Moravia begins under direction of Karel Absolon. * 20-year project at

Chichen Itza Chichen Itza , es, Chichén Itzá , often with the emphasis reversed in English to ; from yua, Chiʼchʼèen Ìitshaʼ () "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people" was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal ...

by the Carnegie Institution and Harvard University begins under direction of Sylvanus G. Morley. * Excavations at Qatna by

Robert du Mesnil du Buisson Count Robert du Mesnil du Buisson (9 April 1895, Champobert, Bourges – 8 April 1986, Caen) was a French historian, soldier, and archeologist. He was noted for his early use of geophysical survey for archaeology. He was son of Auguste, comte du M ...

begin. * Excavation of Indus Valley civilisation site at Mohenjo-daro by Kashinath Narayan Dikshit (following survey by M. S. Vats) begins.

Publications

Francis Haverfield Francis John Haverfield, (8 November 1860 at Shipston-on-Stour – 1 October 1919) was an English ancient historian, archaeologist, and academic. From 1907 to 1919 he held the Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford ...

- ''The Roman Occupation of Britain, being six Ford Lectures'' (published posthumously). *

Alfred V. Kidder Alfred Vincent Kidder (October 29, 1885 – June 11, 1963) was an American archaeologist considered the foremost of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica during the first half of the 20th century. He saw a disciplined system of archaeolog ...

- ''An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology''.

Finds

*The Beeston Tor Hoard, an Anglo-Saxon jewellery and coin hoard, discovered at Beeston Tor in

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, England. * Bab edh-Dhra discovered.

Awards

Miscellaneous

* Alexander Keiller purchases Windmill Hill, Avebury. * Francis Llewellyn Griffith appointed first professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford. * The Nefertiti Bust (excavated in 1912) is first displayed to the public, as part of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin. * Storms sweep away a portion of the Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney ( Scotland).

Births

* Elisabeth Munksgaard, Danish prehistorian (died

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

)

Deaths

* June 14 - Jacques de Morgan, French archaeologist (born

1857 Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * Janua ...

)

References

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