Explorations

Excavations

• Mortimer Wheeler excavates Brahmagiri for the Archaeological Survey of India.
• Stuart Piggott begins excavations at Cairnpapple Hill in Scotland.
• J. F. S. Stone excavates the first trench across the Stonehenge cursus.

Publications

• I. A. Richmond - Roman Britain (London: Collins).

Finds

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi codices are both discovered. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found east of Jerusalem, in caves at Qumran, near the Dead Sea.
• Star Carr discovered in North Yorkshire.

Awards

Miscellaneous

• 7 August: Thor Heyerdahl's balsa raft Kon-Tiki makes landfall on Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day journey from Peru.
• Max Mallowan appointed Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London and director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, where he directs the resumption of its work at Nimrud.

Births

• 28 May: Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist

Deaths

• 7 June: Julio C. Tello, Peruvian archaeologist
• 25 August: Franz Cumont

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