Evans’ excavation of the Linear B tablets at Knossos shed light on the complex and sophisticated nature of the Minoan civilization.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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What is known as the world’s oldest computer had been in plain view for two years before anyone realised what it was.
The first professional archaeological excavation began in the Qumran Caves, the location of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
On the 16th February 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The 24th August AD 79 is traditionally believed to have been the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum.
On the 17th May 1902, an ancient analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism was first identified by Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais.
On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.
On the 26th November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
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