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The year 1954 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.
The London Mithraeum, also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook, is a Roman Mithraeum that was discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during a building's construction in 1954. The entire site was relocated to permit continued construction and this temple of the mystery god Mithras became perhaps the most famous 20th-century Roman discovery in London.
The year 1926 saw a number of significant events in the field of archaeology:
The year 1974 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1905 in archaeology involved some significant events.
A Mithraeum(Latin pl. Mithraea), sometimes spelled Mithreum and Mithraion, is a Mithraic temple, erected in classical antiquity by the worshippers of Mithras. Most Mithraea can be dated between 100 BC and 300 AD, mostly in the Roman Empire.
William Francis Grimes was a Welsh archaeologist. He devoted his career to the archaeology of London and the prehistory of Wales. He was appointed a CBE in 1955.
The year 1922 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1894 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1976 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1996 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1988 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1956 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1889 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1958 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1902 in archaeology involved some significant events.
The year 1936 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Audrey Williams, née Davies, (1902–1978) was a Welsh archaeologist. She was the first woman president of the Royal Institution of South Wales (RISW) and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She worked on several notable excavations during the mid-20th century in Wales, London and south-east England, including the Gower Peninsula, Verulamium and the Temple of Mithras in London.
The Mithraeum of Dura Europos was found during excavations in the city in 1934. It is considered to be one of the best-preserved and best-documented cult buildings of Mithraism.