1904 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1904.

Events

 * March 18 – Ancient Monuments Preservation Act 1904 passed in British India.

Explorations

 * Leo Frobenius makes an expedition to the Kasai region of the Belgian Congo.

Excavations

 * Edward Herbert Thompson dredges artifacts from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza.
 * First formal excavations at Aphrodisias in Anatolia, by French railroad engineer Paul Augustin Gaudin, begin.
 * Oseberg ship.

Finds

 * Tomb of Nefertari discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli.
 * Winter 1904–5 – Inscription in a form of Proto-Sinaitic script, dated to the mid-19th century BCE, discovered in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie.
 * Approximate date – Broe helmet.
 * Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros in Delos, Greece.

Publications

 * Rudolf Ernst Brünnow and Alfred von Domaszewski begin publication of Die Provincia Arabia, containing a detailed description of Petra.

Births

 * January 19 – Pei Wenzhong, founding father of Chinese anthropology (died 1982).
 * February 11 – Alan Sorrell, English archaeological illustrator (died 1974).
 * May 6 – Max Mallowan, English archaeologist (died 1978).

Deaths

 * March – Alexander Stuart Murray, Scottish archaeologist and museum curator (born 1841).
 * November 20 – Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (born 1832)