1891 in archaeology

Explorations

• Brahmagiri first explored by Benjamin L. Rice.

  Excavations

• Peabody Museum - Harvard University project at Copan begins.
• Flinders Petrie works on the temple of Aten at Tell-el-Amarna, discovering a New Kingdom painted pavement.
• J. Theodore Bent works at Great Zimbabwe.

  Finds

• May 28 - Gundestrup cauldron, found in Himmerland, Denmark.

  Paleontology

• October - Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus, or 'Java Man', at Trinil on the Solo River.
• The Saqqara Bird.

  Publications

• Coins of Ancient India by Sir Alexander Cunningham.
• Dorset Ooser first published.

  Births

Deaths