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Overview of the events of 2012 in archaeology
The year 2012 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
January - Discovery of a first-century farmhouse on the building site of the new stadium in the south of Marseille .[ 1]
Excavations
June 6 - Excavators from Museum of London Archaeology announce that they have uncovered the remains of the Elizabethan Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch .[ 2] [ 3]
August 24 - Philippa Langley in association with the Richard III Society , and Leicester City Council , engage University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), and announce that they have joined forces to begin a search for the site of Greyfriars, Leicester , burial place of King Richard III of England .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] 2013 .[ 9]
October - Remains of substantial Mesolithic buildings are identified in Britain at Echline in Scotland ,[ 10] Sefton, Merseyside [ 11] Starr Carr in North Yorkshire .[ 12]
December - Archaeologists complete excavation of a 900-seat Athenaeum from the time of the Emperor Hadrian in Rome discovered during work on a Metro line at Piazza Venezia .[ 13]
Excavation of working-class back-to-back houses from the Industrial Revolution period at Chapel Street in Salford, Greater Manchester , England.[ 14]
Excavations at Holt Castle in Wales begin.
Finds
January
February 17 - Alabaster colossus of pharaoh Amenhotep III is discovered.[ 18]
March - Discovery of an inscribed doorjamb at Karnak giving the hitherto unknown titulary of pharaoh Senakhtenre Ahmose .[ 19]
March - A 7th century grave near Cambridge in England provides an early example of the transition from pagan Anglo-Saxon to Christian burial practices.[ 20]
March 30 - In Georgia , archeologists report unearthing jars containing what they believe to be the world's oldest honey .[ 21]
May - The oldest Mayan astronomical calendar discovered so far, from the 9th century, is reported from Xultun .[ 22]
May 9 - Archaeologists announce discovery on The Burren in Ireland of evidence of settlement from 6000 BCE.[ 23]
May 19 - The National Trust for Scotland announce that the first cursing stone to be found in the country, dated to circa 800, has been discovered on Canna .[ 24]
May 22 - The Bedale Hoard , a hoard of forty-eight silver and gold items dating from the late 9th to early 10th century AD is discovered in a field near Bedale , North Yorkshire by metal detectorists .[ 25]
June 25 - In the Channel Island of Jersey , the discovery of the Grouville Hoard of an estimated 30,000 – 50,000 Roman and Celtic coins by metal detectorists is announced.[ 26]
July
September - A beeswax filling is discovered in the cracked tooth of a Neolithic man in Slovenia .[ 31]
October - In Jersey, the Trinity Hoard of Bronze Age tools and weapons is discovered.[ 32]
November - 2,400-year-old golden treasure near the Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari , Bulgaria .[ 33]
December - Discovery near Canterbury , England, of a 1st-century Iron Age bronze helmet containing a bag of cremated human remains is announced.[ 34] [ 35]
Undated
Devunigutta Temple in India first reported.[ 36] Discovery of a rock inscription confirming the existence of Iry-Hor , the earliest ruler of Egypt known by name.[ 37]
Cypriot pottery vessels excavated at Yehud in the land of Canaan (modern-day Israel) subsequently discovered to contain the earliest surviving evidence of opium for use as a narcotic .[ 38]
Events
Deaths
See also
References
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