Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
.
Explorations
Excavations
*
Kaminaljuyu Mayan site, by Manuel Gamino.
*
Kültepe in Turkey, by
Bedřich Hrozný.
* Excavations in
Gibraltar
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by
Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1926).
* October -
Tin Hinan Tomb in the
Sahara
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located and opened by
Byron Khun de Prorok.
* December - Complete excavation of the
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human, and the body of a lion. Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, E ...
by
Émile Baraize
Émile Baraize (28 August 1874 – 15 April 1952) was a French Egyptologist.
Life
In 1912 he succeeded Alessandro Barsanti as director of the director of works within the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Throughout his life, he worked to restore ...
begins (continues to 1936).
Publications
*
John Beazley - ''Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils''
*
V. Gordon Childe
Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 189219 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and th ...
- ''The Dawn of European Civilization''.
*
Aleš Hrdlička - ''The Old Americans''.
Finds
* July 13 - "
Venus of Dolní Věstonice" 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.
* October 28 -
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 ...
reveals the golden
death mask of
Tutenkhamun.
*
Ennigaldi-Nanna's Museum at
Ur is discovered by
Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his Excavation (archaeology), excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is recognized as one of the first "modern" archaeologists who excavat ...
.
* "
Venus of Savignano
The Venus of Savignano is a Venus figurine made from soft greenstone ( serpentine) dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, which was discovered in 1925 near Savignano sul Panaro in the Province of Modena, Italy.
With in height, in width and in d ...
" near
Savignano sul Panaro
Savignano sul Panaro ( Modenese: ; Western Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about west of Bologna and about southeast of Modena.
Savignano sul Panaro borders t ...
in Italy.
* "Galilee skull" in
Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh.
* The
Aurignacian
The Aurignacian () is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic
associated with European early modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where t ...
settlement site at
Breitenbach in
Saxony-Anhalt is discovered by local schoolteacher E. Thiersch.
* Belgic pottery at
Swarling,
Kent.
*
Makapansgat pebble
The Makapansgat pebble or Makapansgat cobble (wikt:circa, ca. 3,000,000 Before Present, BP) is a pebble with natural chipping and wear patterns that make it look like a crude rendition of a human face, in fact at least two possible faces. Some sch ...
in
South Africa.
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
* January 22 -
John Davies Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d.
2011
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)
* April 24 -
Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (d.
2006
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)
* November 14 -
James Mellaart,
British archaeologist. (d.
2012
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)
Deaths
* February 4 -
Robert Koldewey,
German archaeologist (b.
1855
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.
* January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru.
* January 23
** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...
).
References
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