1898 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1898.

Explorations

 * Exploration of the site of Assur by German archaeologists begins.

Excavations

 * J. E. Quibell excavates the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt.
 * Excavations at Bremetennacum (Ribchester), Lancashire, England (1898–9).

Finds

 * March - Victor Loret discovers Amenhotep II's mummy in his KV35 tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings within the original sarcophagus, together with a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II and Ramesses III, IV and VI.
 * Summer - The Bleasdale Circle, a Bronze Age timber and earthwork in Lancashire, England, is discovered by Thomas Kelsall.
 * The Withypool Stone Circle (late Neolithic/early Bronze Age) on Exmoor, England, is discovered accidentally by Archibald Hamilton.
 * The Narmer Palette is found by J. E. Quibell while excavating the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt.
 * The site of Karakorum is identified as the former Mongol capital by Nikolai Yadrintsev, who discovers the Orkhon script during the same expedition.
 * Willie Peppé, excavating a stupa at Piprahwa Kot, discovers ashes claimed to be of Gautama Buddha.
 * Purported finding of the Kensington Runestone in Minnesota.

Births

 * 22 August – Jaroslav Černý, Czech-born Egyptologist (d. 1970).
 * 14 September – Ernest Nash, born Ernst Nathan, German-born student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography (d. 1974).
 * 31 December – J. Eric S. Thompson, English archaeologist, student of the Maya civilization (d. 1975).

Deaths

 * 21 October – Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (b. 1832).