Excavations

• Seibal
  Seibal
  Seibal, known as El Ceibal in Spanish, is a Classic Period archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the northern Petén Department of Guatemala. It was the largest city in the Pasión River region....
  
   Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
   project begins under direction of Gordon R. Willey and A. Ledyard Smith
  A. Ledyard Smith
  A. Ledyard Smith was an American archaeologist who worked on various projects in the Maya region on behalf of the Carnegie Institution, including Uaxactun. From 1958 to 1963 he led investigations at Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala together with Gordon Willey on behalf of the Peabody Museum of...
  
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• Et-Tell
  Et-Tell
  Et-Tell is an archaeological site in the West Bank that is popularly thought to be the Biblical city of Ai.- Location :The site of et-Tell is about 3 km east of the modern village of Beitin , atop a watershed plateau overlooking the Jordan Valley and the city of Jericho 14 km east.-...
  
   excavations under Joseph Callaway begin (continues through 1970)
• Snaketown
  Snaketown
  Snaketown is an archaeological site southeast of Phoenix, Arizona that was inhabited by the Hohokam people. Definitive dates are not clear, but the site was generally thought to be inhabited between 300 B. C. E. and 1200 C. E. Hohokam is an O’odham word meaning “those who have gone.” Specifically...
  
   by Emil Haury
  Emil Haury
  Emil Walter "Doc" Haury was an influential archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of the American Southwest....
  
  , with assistance from E.B. Sayles, Erik K. Reed, and Irwin and Julian Hayden.
• Ebla
  Ebla
  Ebla Idlib Governorate, Syria) was an ancient city about southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late third millennium BC, then again between 1800 and 1650 BC....
  
   excavations by the University of Rome La Sapienza
  University of Rome La Sapienza
  The Sapienza University of Rome, officially Sapienza – Università di Roma, formerly known as Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy...
  
   directed by Paolo Matthiae
  Paolo Matthiae
  Paolo Matthiae is an Italian archaeologist.He was Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University of Rome La Sapienza; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963—in fact, its discoverer—and has published many articles and books about...
  
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Publications

• L. Sprague deCamp and Catherine Crook de Camp
  Catherine Crook de Camp
  Catherine Crook de Camp, was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor. Most of whose work was done in collaboration with her husband L. Sprague de Camp, to whom she was married for sixty years. Her solo work was largely non-fiction.-Life:Catherine Crook was born Catherine Adelaide...
  
   - Ancient Ruins and Archaeology
  Ancient Ruins and Archaeology
  Ancient Ruins and Archaeology is a 1964 science book by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, one of their most popular works. It was first published by Doubleday and has been reprinted numerous times by other publishers. Paperback editions since 1972 have generally reverted to the title...
  
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• Journal of Industrial Archaeology begins publication.

Finds

• Getty Victorious Youth in the sea off Fano
  Fano
  Fano is a town and comune of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort 12 km southeast of Pesaro, located where the Via Flaminia reaches the Adriatic Sea...
  
  
• The second trove of Qabala treasures
  Qabala treasures
  Qabala treasures are monetary treasure troves, unearthed in different years near the remnants of Qabala , the capital of Caucasian Albania.The first trove, unearthed in 1950s, contains the coins of Sassanid ruler Kavadh I ....
  
   in 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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Miscellaneous

• April 24 – The Swedish
  Sweden
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
  
   warship
  Warship
  A warship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for combat. Warships are usually built in a completely different way from merchant ships. As well as being armed, warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually faster and more maneuvrable than merchant ships...
  
   Vasa, sunk in 1628, is raised from the waters of Stockholm
  Stockholm
  Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
  
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• Project to move temples of Abu Simbel
  Abu Simbel
  Abu Simbel temples refers to two massive rock temples in Abu Simbel in Nubia, southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 230 km southwest of Aswan...
  
   to prevent their inundation by the Aswan High Dam begins.
• The Venice Charter
  Venice Charter
  The Venice Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites is a treaty that gives an international framework for the preservation and restoration of ancient buildings...
  
  for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites.