21 March 1912: King Edward and Queen Alexandra visit the London Museum collection which includes historical exhibits from Roman times.
1 December 1922: The burial site of Egypt’s boy-king Tutankhamun is discovered by Howard Carter - the most significant archaeological event of the twentieth century.
12 June 1926: An archaeological congress in Syria takes our Jerusalem correspondent to Palmyra, ‘the skeleton of an ancient magnificence.’
18 September 1928: An expedition to inner Mongolia finds remarkable fossil beasts that are entirely new to science, and evidence of a Mesolithic culture dating back twenty thousand years.
2 May 1956: An Egyptian princess’s tomb is opened after 4,000 years but only a broken vase and gold coins are found.
22 February 1965: A city found in Afghanistan is the first Greek settlement in Central Asia.
23 February 1974: Noah news is good news as a possible Ark is sighted from space.
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23 September 2012: The remains of the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, are discovered under a car park in Leicester. The new grave has made Leicester one of the world’s top 25 sites to visit.
17 October 2015: Ancient teeth found in China suggest Homo sapiens was outwitted by its rivals, the Neanderthals.
11 April 2016: Now that the damaged ancient city of Palmyra has been seized back from Islamic State, Jonathan Jones argues that it must not be fixed. Syria’s top archaeologist, on the other hand, promises Palmyra will rise again.
