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The year 2006 in archaeology includes the following significant events.

Explorations

• Tomb of the Roaring Lions

Excavations

• KV63 - the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
• Ancient pre-Inca pet cemetery dated to the Chiribaya culture found south of Lima, Peru.
• Ancient pre-Inca tombs complex dated to Middle Sican culture discovered under the Huaca Loro pyramid in Peru; 12 ceremonial tumi knives found.
• The Jewish cemetery, Lucena (Andalusia), the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, is discovered during construction of the city's southern ring road and excavated.
• Portions of Timișoara Fortress in Romania.

Finds

• July - The Faddan More Psalter, a devotional book, is found in a peat bog in Ireland, where it has been buried for approximately 1200 years.
• December
  • Little Horwood Hoard of Iron Age gold staters from Buckinghamshire, England.
  • River Boyne shipwreck of 1530s found off Drogheda in Ireland.
• Inscriptions in an early form of Linear Elamite discovered at Jiroft in Iran.
• Roman sarcophagus found during work at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, well outside the walls of Londinium.
• Defences from the Siege of Leith (1560) discovered in Pilrig, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Wreck of Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine, sunk in the 1942 attack on Sydney Harbour, discovered off Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Publications

• Steve Burrow - The Tomb-builders in Wales 4000-3000 BC ISBN 9780720005684
• Andrea Carandini - Remo e Romolo: Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa) ISBN 9788806180652 and La leggenda di Roma ISBN 9788804634973
• Gwyn Davies - Roman Siege Works ISBN 9780752428970
• Jürg Eggler & Othmar Keel - Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien: vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit ISBN 9783525530146
• Lars Fogelin - Archaeology of Early Buddhism ISBN 9780759107502
• Matthew Johnson - Ideas of Landscape ISBN 9781405178334
• Chris Stringer - Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain ISBN 9780713997958

Awards

• June - Barry Cunliffe knighted.

Events

• October - British historian Alex Woolf publishes arguments that the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu was located around the Moray Firth region, further north in Scotland than the previous consensus.
• The Kharosti scrolls, the oldest collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the world, are radiocarbon-dated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The group confirms the initial dating of the Senior manuscripts to 130-250 CE and the Schøyen manuscripts to between the 1st and 5th centuries CE.

Deaths

• June 6 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (b. 1925)
• August 2 - Richard Avent, British archaeologist, conservationist and civil servant (b. 1948)
• December 1 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist and McGill University professor (b. 1937)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• Karnak
• Pompeii
• Mayapan - recent excavations, near cenote wells.

References

1. McMahon, Barbara (18 June 2006). "Italian 'tomb raider' reveals burial chamber". The Observer. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
2. "Final coffin opened in Egyptian chamber". msnbc.com. 28 June 2006. Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
3. "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid". news.nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
4. "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid". news.nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
5. "1200-year-old prayer book discovered in bog". www.smh.com.au. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
6. "Record ID: BUC-5D0980 - Iron Age coin hoard". The Portable Antiquities Scheme. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
7. "What lies beneath". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
8. "Ancient body prompts new theories". BBC News. 2006-12-01. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
9. "Significant Clue to Leith's History Found in Pilrig Park". EdinburghGuide.com. Alstead Media. 2006-12-13. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
10. "Birthday honours: list in full". The Independent. 17 June 2006. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
11. Woolf, Alex (2006). "Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the geography of the Picts". The Scottish Historical Review. 85 (2): 182–201. doi:10.3366/shr.2007.0029. S2CID 161978981.
12. Lane, Alan (23 June 2006). "Leslie Alcock". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
13. Wakelin, Peter (2006-08-25). "Obituary: Richard Avent". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
14. "Antiquity Journal". www.antiquity.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2017.

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