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1945 in archaeology

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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 Žulkus, 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

References

  1. (13 July 2002). "Obituary: Barbara Adams".
  2. "Harriet Boyd Hawes".
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