Explorations

Excavations

• Francis Llewellyn Griffith begins a 4-year series of excavations in Nubia.
• Edgar Lee Hewett begins a 4-year project at Quirigu .

Publications

Finds

Awards

Miscellaneous

• United Fruit Company purchases land in Guatemala including the Maya site of Quirigu ; 30 acres (120,000 m ) including and around the ruins are set aside as an archaeological zone.
• The National Museums of Kenya, a governmental body maintaining several museums and monuments in Kenya (with headquarters in Nairobi), is founded by the East Africa Natural History Society.

Births

• February 13 - Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (died 1992) (in Paris).
• May 28 - Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist (died 1996).
• August 5 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (died 1996).

Deaths

• Cyrus Thomas
• Richard Wetherill

See also

• Pompeii

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