Excavations

• Mixco Viejo
  Mixco Viejo
  Mixco Viejo is an archaeological site in the north east of the Chimaltenango department of Guatemala, some 50 km to the north of Guatemala City and 4km from the junction of the rivers Pixcaya and Motagua...
  
  , Guatemala
  Guatemala
  Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
  
   Musée d'Homme project under the direction of Henri Lehmann starts (continues through 1967).
• Neolithic
  Neolithic
  The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
  
  -era site of Ashkelon discovered and excavated by French archaeologist Jean Perrot.
• Excavations at Beycesultan
  Beycesultan
  Beycesultan is an archaeological site in western Anatolia, located about 5 km southwest of the modern-day city of Çivril in the Denizli Province of Turkey. It lies in a bend of an old tributary of Büyük Menderes River ,-History:...
  
   by Seton Lloyd
  Seton Lloyd
  Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, CBE , was an English archaeologist. He was President of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology, University of London...
  
   of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara begin (continue to 1959).
• Excavations at Filitosa
  Filitosa
  Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica, France. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman times in Corsica.-Location:...
  
  , Corsica
  Corsica
  Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
  
  , begin.
• Excavations at Nagarjunakonda by the Archaeological Survey of India
  Archaeological Survey of India
  The Archaeological Survey of India is a department of the Government of India, attached to the Ministry of Culture . The ASI is responsible for archaeological studies and the preservation of archaeological heritage of the country in accordance with the various acts of the Indian Parliament...
  
   begin (continue to 1960).
• Excavations at Nevasa
  Nevasa
  Nevasa is a city in Nevasa tehsil of Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.A famous temple of Shani, Shani Shingnapur is located near Sonai in Nevasa Taluka. Saint Dnyaneshwar wrote a dnaneshwari in Newasa beside a pole which is still there...
  
  , Maharashtra
  Maharashtra
  Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
  
  , begin (continue to 1956).

Finds

• Temple of Mithras, London
  Temple of Mithras, London
  The Temple of Mithras, Walbrook is a Roman temple whose ruins were discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during rebuilding work in 1954. It is perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London....
  
   discovered by W. F. Grimes
  W. F. Grimes
  Professor William Francis Grimes was a Welsh archaeologist who devoted his career to the archaeology of London and the prehistory of Wales. Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, he received his education at the University of Wales. He held a number of prominent posts in Wales, including Chairman of the...
  
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• Khufu ship
  Khufu ship
  The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu , the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt...
  
   discovered in Giza pyramid complex
  Giza pyramid complex
  The Giza Necropolis is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramid complexes known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an...
  
   by Kamal el-Mallakh
  Kamal el-Mallakh
  Kamal el-Mallakh was a famous Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1950.-Life:He was born to a Coptic family from Upper Egypt on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987....
  
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• Cape Gelidonya
  Cape Gelidonya
  Cape Gelidonya near Finike, Turkey is the site of a late Bronze Age wreck . In view of the cargo's nature and composition the excavators have proposed a possible levantine provenance. The remains of the ship sat at a depth of about 27 m, on irregular rocky bottom. It was located in 1954, and the...
  
   shipwreck discovered.

Publications

• Maurice Beresford
  Maurice Beresford
  Maurice Warwick Beresford was an English economic historian and medieval archaeologist.-Academic career:...
  
   - The Lost Villages of England.
• R. Allen Brown - English Medieval Castles.
• Grahame Clark - Excavations at Star Carr, an early Mesolithic site at Seamer near Scarborough, Yorkshire.
• V. E. Nash-Williams
  Victor Erle Nash-Williams
  Victor Erle Nash-Williams was a noted Welsh archaeologist.Educated at the Lewis School, Pengam, and at the University College in Cardiff, he was appointed Keeper at the National Museum of Wales...
  
   - The Roman Frontier in Wales.
• Stuart Piggott
  Stuart Piggott
  Stuart Ernest Piggott CBE was a British archaeologist best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, Piggott was educated at Churcher's College and on leaving school in 1927 took up a post as assistant at Reading Museum where he developed an expertise in Neolithic...
  
  - The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles: a study of the stone-using agricultural communities of Britain in the second millennium B.C.