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The year 1999 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Explorations 2 Excavations 3 Finds 4 Publications 5 Events 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Explorations

[edit] Excavations

• Excavations resume at Qatna, in Syria.
• Wide-scope vertical and horizontal excavation of world's oldest wet-rice (rice paddy) agricultural feature, c. 800 BC, at Okhyeon site, Ulsan, Korea.

[edit] Finds

• Shipwreck of the RMS Carpathia is located.
• 105 mummies are discovered in the first 4 tombs to be opened in the Valley of the Golden Mummies.
• A frozen and mummified body, later named Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi ("Long Ago Person Found"), is found in a Canadian glacier.

[edit] Publications

• July-August issue of "Archaeology" asks: "Is Schliemann Mask a Fake?" Some scholars, noting that "Mask of Agamemnon" is significantly different from the others found at the site, contend that Schliemann had some of the features added to make the mask appear more heroic to viewers of his day.

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• March 31 - Yuri Knorozov, epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphs
• July 16 - Barri Jones
• Arvid Andrén