1922 in archaeology

The year 1922 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• November 4 - Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb. He opens it in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, on November 26.
• First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill.
• Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.
• Excavations at Euphrates, site of Dura-Europos, by Franz Cumont.
• Excavations at the Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens) by German archaeologists.

Explorations

• Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford.
• Mohenjo-daro rediscovered by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay of the Archaeological Survey of India.
• First of four successive American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils of Indricotherium (a gigantic hornless rhinoceros then named "Baluchitherium"), Protoceratops, a nest of Protoceratops eggs (found in 1995 to be from Oviraptor), Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, none of which were known before.

Finds

• Venus of Lespugue.

Publications

• Alfred Watkins - Early British Trackways.

Births

• July 12 - Michael Ventris, English co-decipherer of Linear B (died 1956).
• November 19 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics (died 1999).
• Kim Won-yong, Father of Korean Archaeology and Seoul National University professor (died 1993).

Deaths

• November 23 - Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (born 1849).

See also

• List of years in archaeology