title: 1900 in archaeology
text: # 1900 in archaeology
  
  Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1900.
  
  ## Excavations
  
  * March 16: Arthur Evans purchases Knossos and soon after begins excavations.
  * Excavations by Friedrich Delitzsch begin at Assur.
  * University of Pennsylvania excavations at Nippur conclude (began in 1888).
  * Gordium excavated by Gustav and Alfred Körte.
  * Kavousi excavated by Harriet Boyd.
  * Villa Boscoreale, near Pompeii, excavated.
  * Excavations at Hedeby in Jutland begin.
  
  ## Finds
  
  * April 5: A large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek, now known as Linear B, is found at Knossos.
  * May: Migdale Hoard of early Bronze Age jewellery discovered near Bonar Bridge in Scotland.
  * October: Greek sponge divers discover the Antikythera wreck.
  * Dr. James K. Hampson documents find of the Island 35 Mastodon skeleton in the Mississippi River.
  * Site of Temple of Eshmun discovered in Lebanon.
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 2 – A. W. Lawrence, English Classical archaeologist (d. 1991).
  * May 23 – Gustav Riek, German archaeologist (d. 1976).
  * August 18 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964).
  * August 19 – Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * May 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1827).
  * May 18 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher and archaeologist (b. 1813).
  