1907 in archaeology

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The year 1907 in archaeology:

Explorations

• Theodor Makridi Bey makes brief explorations at Alaca Höyük.

Excavations

• January 6 - Tomb KV55 (almost certainly that of Akhenaten, 18th Dynasty) in Egypt's Valley of the Kings is discovered by Edward R. Ayrton.
• William M. Ramsay and Gertrude Bell work in Turkey.
• John Garstang begins work at Sakçagözü (continues to 1912).
• Ernst Sellin begins work at Tell es-Sultan, Jericho.

Finds

• March - Aurel Stein discovers the Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".^[1]
• October 21 - Jaw of Homo heidelbergensis (Mauer 1) found.^[2]

Publications

• E. A. Wallis Budge - The Egyptian Sudan: its History and Monuments.
• Aleš Hrdlička - Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America.

Miscellaneous

• March 11 - Chaco Canyon National Monument is established.
• Lukis Museum opens on Guernsey.
• Howard Carter begins to work for Lord Carnarvon to supervise his excavations in Egypt.^[3]

Births

• July 28 - Grahame Clark, English archaeologist (died 1995).
• July 29 - Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (died 2005).
• August 30 - Bertha "Birdie" Parker, Native American archaeologist (died 1978).

References

1. "Sacred Texts: Diamond Sutra". British Library. 2003-11-30. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
2. Schoetensack, Otto (1908). Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
3. Winstone, H. V. F. (2006). Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (rev. ed.). Manchester: Barzan. ISBN 1-905521-04-9.