1999 in archaeology Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...

Explorations

Excavations

• Excavations resume at Qatna, Syria

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. ...

Finds

• Shipwreck of the RMS Carpathia located

RMS Carpathia The RMS Carpathia was a transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their Newcastle shipyards, United Kingdom, and launched on 6 August 1902. ...

Publications

Events

Births

Deaths

• 31 March - Yuri Knorosov, epigrapher of Maya heiroglyphics

Jump to: navigation, search March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Кнорозов; b. ...

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1998 in archaeology
• 2000 in archaeology