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1945 in archaeology
Below are notable events in
archaeology
that occurred in
1945
.
Excavations
Mortimer Wheeler
excavates at
Arikamedu
in
Puducherry
.
Finds
December -
Nag Hammadi library
in
Egypt
.
Miscellaneous
W. F. Grimes
succeeds
Mortimer Wheeler
as director of the
London Museum
.
Births
January 13 -
Francis Pryor
, English archaeologist
February 19 -
Barbara Adams
, English egyptologist (d.
2002
)
April 16 -
Vladas à ½ulkus
, Lithuanian underwater archaeologist
October 25 -
J. P. Mallory
, Irish American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist
James Peter Allen
, American Egyptologist
Deaths
March 31 -
Harriet Boyd Hawes
, American archaeologist (b.
1871
)
May 5 -
Edgar James Banks
, American antiquarian (b.
1866
)
May 31 -
Friedrich Sarre
, German Orientalist (b.
1865
)
9 December -
Alfred Lucas
, English analytical chemist and archaeologist, part of
Howard Carter
's team at the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (b.
1867
)
References