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 Andrea Carandini - Remo e Romolo: Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa) and La leggenda di Roma Gwyn Davies - Roman Siege Works Jürg Eggler & Othmar Keel - Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien: vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit Lars Fogelin - Archaeology of Early Buddhism Matthew Johnson - Ideas of Landscape Chris Stringer - Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
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.
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