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2014 in archaeology

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The year 2014 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

  • January 7 - The journal Nature announced that some Tsinghua Bamboo Slips represent "the world's oldest example of a multiplication table in base 10".

    • Excavations

  • November 6 - The recovery of the bell of the Franklin expedition's HMS Erebus is announced.
  • Re-excavation of St Piran's Oratory, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, begins.

    • Finds

  • January 6 - Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announces the positive identification of the tomb of Sobekhotep I.
  • March 7 - The discovery of an alabaster statue of Princess Iset, dating from c. 1350 BC, is announced in Egypt.
  • April 9 - The Israel Antiquities Authority announces the discovery of a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian coffin in the Jezreel Valley during a natural gas pipeline excavation. The coffin is thought to have belonged to a wealthy Canaanite.
  • April 19 - Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities announces the discovery of two Twenty-sixth Dynasty tombs in Oxyrhynchus, one of which belonged to a scribe and the other one to a major clerical family.
  • April 28 - Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities announces the discovery of at least 50 mummies in the tomb KV40.
  • May 7 - The discovery of a 5,600-year-old preserved tomb and mummy predating the First Dynasty of Egypt, at Nekhen, is announced by the Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities.
  • June 3 - The discovery of a 5,000-year-old pair of woollen riding trousers in China is announced.
  • July 4 - The discovery of more than 150 burials in the Atacama Desert belonging to a previously unknown culture was announced. The findings are dated to between the 4th-7th century AD and indicate that the area was inhabited before the expansion of the Tiwanaku culture.
  • July 7 - The discovery of 26 Roman/late Iron Age coins probably of the Corieltauvi in a Dovedale cave in the Peak District of England is announced.
  • September 9 - A ship of Franklin's lost expedition is located, later announced as the flagship, HMS Erebus.
  • December 18 - The discovery of a large British Iron Age and Anglian square barrow cemetery at Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in a rescue archaeology excavation is announced.
  • December 21 - A container of 5,251 coins from the reigns of Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great is found in Buckinghamshire, England, by a metal detectorist.
  • December 28 - An underground city estimated to be around 5,000 years old is discovered in Turkey.

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