Excavations

• Excavations of Babylon
  Babylon
  Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...
  
   by Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
  Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
  The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft is a Eingetragener Verein - a registered voluntary association - based at Berlin in Germany....
  
   directed by Robert Koldewey
  Robert Koldewey
  Robert Johann Koldewey was a German architect, famous for his discovery of the ancient city of Babylon in modern day Iraq. He was born in Blankenburg am Harz in Germany, the duchy of Brunswick, and died in Berlin at the age of 70...
  
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Finds

• Wang Yiron, director of the Imperial College of China, discovers Shang dynasty
  Shang Dynasty
  The Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty was, according to traditional sources, the second Chinese dynasty, after the Xia. They ruled in the northeastern regions of the area known as "China proper" in the Yellow River valley...
  
   oracle bones from the site of Yinxu
  Yinxu
  Yinxu is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty. The capital served 255 years for 12 kings in 8 generations.Rediscovered in 1899, it is one of the oldest and largest archeological sites in China and is one of the historical capitals of China and a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
  
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• Roman Empire
  Roman Empire
  The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
  
  -related silver plate was found near Qalagah
  Qalagah
  Qalagah is a village and municipality in the Ismailli Rayon of Azerbaijan, situated 28 km to the south-west from the rayon centre, on the forepart of Ajinohur mountain. It has a population of 991....
  
  , Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
  
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Births

• 30 December: Helge Ingstad
  Helge Ingstad
  Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the Province of Newfoundland in Canada...
  
  , Norwegian
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
   explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows
  L'Anse aux Meadows
  L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Discovered in 1960, it is the only known site of a Norse or Viking village in Canada, and in North America outside of Greenland...
  
   (d. 2001
  2001 in archaeology
  -Excavations:* Grinnell College project at Mayapan* Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli*French archaeologists begin excavating Ulug Depe, an ancient bronze-age agricultural town in Turkmenistan-Publications:...
  
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See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1898 in archaeology
  1898 in archaeology
  The year 1898 in archaeology involved some significant excavations.-Excavations:* J. E. Quibell excavates the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt....
  
  
• 1900 in archaeology
  1900 in archaeology
  -Excavations:* March 16: Arthur Evans purchases Knossos and soon after begins excavations.* Excavations by Friedrich Delitzsch begin at Assur.* University of Pennsylvania excavations at Nippur conclude ....