Excavations

• Excavations of the ruins of Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
  , by Ludwig Borchardt
  Ludwig Borchardt
  Ludwig Borchardt was a German Egyptologist who was born in Berlin.-Life:Borchardt initially studied Architecture and later Egyptology under Adolf Erman. In 1895 he journeyed to Cairo and produced, with Gaston Maspero, the Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum...
  
   of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
  Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
  The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft is a Eingetragener Verein - a registered voluntary association - based at Berlin in Germany....
  
   (continues to 1914).
• First excavations of ancient Samarra
  Samarra
  Sāmarrā is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
  
  , Iraq
  Iraq
  Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
  , by Ernst Herzfeld
  Ernst Herzfeld
  Ernst Emil Herzfeld was a German archaeologist and Iranologist.-Life:Herzfeld was born in Celle, Province of Hanover...
  
   (continues to 1914).
• First excavations of Tell Halaf
  Tell Halaf
  Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border, just opposite Ceylanpınar. It was the first find of a Neolithic culture, subsequently dubbed the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs...
  
  , Syria
  Syria
  Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
  
  , by Max von Oppenheim
  Max von Oppenheim
  Max Freiherr von Oppenheim was a German ancient historian, and archaeologist, "the last of the great amateur archaeological explorers of the Near East."....
  
   (continues to 1913).
• First excavations of Hengistbury Head
  Hengistbury Head
  Hengistbury Head is a headland jutting into the English Channel between Bournemouth and Milford on Sea in the English county of Dorset.At the end is a spit which creates the narrow entrance to Christchurch Harbour.-Location:...
  
   by J. P. Bushe-Fox.
• First excavations at Beit Shemesh (continues to 1912).

Publications

• James Curle: A Roman Frontier Post and its People: the Fort of Newstead.
• Grafton Elliot Smith
  Grafton Elliot Smith
  Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, FRS FRCP was an Australian anatomist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.-Professional career:Smith was born in Grafton, New South Wales...
  
  : The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization.

Deaths

• 19 August: John Robert Mortimer
  John Robert Mortimer
  John Robert Mortimer was an English corn-merchant and archaeologist who lived in Driffield, Yorkshire and was responsible for the excavation of many barrows in that area, including Duggleby Howe....
  
  , Yorkshire
  Yorkshire
  Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
  
   archaeologist (b. 1825
  1825 in archaeology
  The year 1825 in archaeology involved some significant events....
  
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