Below are notable events inarchaeology that occurred in1900.

• September 9 – TheFrançois Vase is smashed into 638 pieces by a museum guard.^[1]

• March 16 –Arthur Evans purchasesKnossos on Crete and soon after begins excavations.
• Excavations byFriedrich Delitzsch begin atAssur.
• University of Pennsylvania excavations atNippur conclude (began in 1888).
• Gordium excavated by Gustav and Alfred Körte.
• Kavousi excavated byHarriet Boyd.
• Villa Boscoreale, nearPompeii, excavated.
• Excavations atHedeby inJutland begin.

• April 5 – A large cache ofclay tablets with a script used for writingMycenaean Greek, which becomes known asLinear B, is found atKnossos.^[2]
• May –Migdale Hoard of earlyBronze Age jewellery discovered nearBonar Bridge in Scotland.
• October – Greek sponge divers discover theAntikythera wreck.
• Dr.James K. Hampson documents find of theIsland 35 Mastodon skeleton in theMississippi River.
• Site ofTemple of Eshmun discovered inLebanon.

• May 2 –A. W. Lawrence, English Classicalarchaeologist (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).

• May 4 –Augustus Pitt Rivers, Englishethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1827).^[3]
• May 18 –Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher and archaeologist (b. 1813).^[4]

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