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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.
Deaths
- May 4: Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist and archaeologist (born 1827).
See also
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