1924 in archaeology Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...
Excavations at Qatna by Robert du Mesnil du Boisson begin
Karel Absolon (June 16, 1877, Boskovice - October 6, 1960, Brno) was Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist and speleologist. ... Temple of the Warriors Chichen Itza is the largest of the Pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Yucat n, Mexico. ... The Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) is a foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 to support scientific research. ... Jump to: navigation, search Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Qatna is an ancient city in Syria, present day Tell-el-Mishrife in the Wadi il-Aswad, a tributary of the Orontes, 18 km northeast of Homs. ...
Learning about archaeology primarily from the Europeans, Egyptians gradually came to realize that it could be turned to their own ends.
These developments in Egyptian archaeology and museology were part of a global process in which states and peoples, over the course of the nineteenth century, struggled to define themselves as modern nations.
For thirty years thereafter, Egyptianization of archaeology and the government progressed fitfully and rearguard actions enabled Europeans to keep a tenuous grip on the levers of power until the 1952 revolution.
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