1998 in archaeology

Explorations

• Location of site of Portuguese carrack Esmeralda wrecked off the coast of Oman in 1503.
• Tell Ali Muntar, a Bronze Age settlement in Palestine, is surveyed by the Gaza Research Project

Excavations

• August - Excavation begins at the Belitung shipwreck, an Arab dhow wrecked off Belitung island in Indonesia about 830 AD discovered earlier in the year; it will yield the biggest single collection of Tang dynasty treasures found in one location.
• October - Excavation begins at "Seahenge" ('Holme I'), a prehistoric timber circle off Holme-next-the-Sea in England discovered earlier in the year.
• November 5–20 - British female Mark IV tank D51 Deborah, knocked out at the Battle of Cambrai (1917), at Flesquières in the north of France.
• Igeum-dong, a settlement-burial-ceremonial site of the Mumun Pottery Period in Sacheon, Korea (excavations finish in 1999).
• Excavations at Urkesh by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft.
• Excavations begin at Pichvnari in Georgia by an Anglo-Georgian joint team.
• Excavations begin at Taposiris Magna in Egypt.

Finds

• Bronze Age Tell es-Sakan in the State of Palestine was discovered during construction of a residential building complex.
• September - The largest Shapwick Hoard of Roman coins, including the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Britain.
• Whydah Gally, wrecked off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1717, the first authenticated pirate shipwreck ever discovered.
• Artognou stone found at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall.
• World's oldest wet-rice (rice paddy) agricultural feature, c. 800 BC, at Okhyeon site, Ulsan, Korea.
• Human remains at 36 Craven Street, London, former home of Benjamin Franklin, probably dissected in the anatomy school run here by his friend, surgeon William Hewson, 1772–74.
• A floor mosaic depicting Orpheus is found at Prusias ad Hypium in Turkey.

Publications

• Flemming Kaul - Ships on Bronzes: a study in Bronze Age religion and iconography.
• Ian M. Stead - The Salisbury Hoard.
• Patricia Wattenmaker - Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia: specialized economy and the social uses of goods in an early complex society.

Other events

• Exhibition is held at the Harvard University Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts: "The Sphinx and the Pyramids: One Hundred Years of American Archaeology at Giza". A model of the Giza plateau is prepared for it.

Births

Deaths

• April 18 - Linda Schele, American Mayanist (b. 1942)
• May 11 - Vronwy Hankey, British Near Eastern archaeologist (b. 1916)
• November 24 - John Chadwick, English co-decipherer of Linear B (b. 1920)

References

References

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13. "Prusias ad Hypium (Konuralp or Üskübü) Turkey".
14. "Tarih Turizmi – Konuralp'ın Mihenk Taşlatından ... Prusias Antik Kentinin Dokusu". Konuralp.
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