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The year 1922 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Excavations
- 4 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb.
- First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill
- Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Charles Leonard Woolley begin
- Excavations at Euphrates, site of Dura-Europos by Franz Cumont.
Explorations
- Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford
Finds
Births
- 12 July: Michael Ventris, co-decypherer of Linear B
- 19 November: Yuri Knorozov, epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics
- Kim Won-yong, Father of Korean Archaeology and Seoul National University professor (d. 1993)
Deaths
- November 23 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (b. 1849)
See also
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