2006 in archaeology

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The year 2006 in archaeology includes the following significant events.

Explorations[]

KV63 - the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.^[2]
Ancient pre-Inca pet cemetery dated to the Chiribaya culture found south of Lima, Peru.^[3]
Ancient pre-Inca tombs complex dated to Middle Sican culture discovered under the pyramid in Peru; 12 ceremonial tumi knives found.^[4]
Portions of Timișoara Fortress in Romania.

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.^[5]
December
- Little Horwood Hoard of Iron Age gold staters from Buckinghamshire, England.^[6]
- River Boyne shipwreck of 1530s found off Drogheda in Ireland.^[7]
Inscriptions in an early form of Linear Elamite discovered at Jiroft in Iran.
Defences from the Siege of Leith (1560) discovered in Pilrig, Edinburgh, Scotland.^[8]

Steve Burrow - The Tomb-builders in Wales 4000-3000 BC ISBN 9780720005684
Andrea Carandini - Remo e Romolo: Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa) ISBN 9788806180652 and La leggenda di Roma ISBN 9788804634973
Gwyn Davies - Roman Siege Works ISBN 9780752428970
Jürg Eggler & Othmar Keel - Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien: vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit ISBN 9783525530146
Lars Fogelin - Archaeology of Early Buddhism ISBN 9780759107502
Matthew Johnson - Ideas of Landscape ISBN 9781405178334
Chris Stringer - Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain ISBN 9780713997958

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.^[10]
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.
30th anniversary of the founding of the modern Korean Archaeological Society.

June 6 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (b. 1925)^[11]
December 1 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist and McGill University professor (b. 1937)^[12]

^ McMahon, Barbara (18 June 2006). "Italian 'tomb raider' reveals burial chamber". The Observer. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "Final coffin opened in Egyptian chamber". msnbc.com. 28 June 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid". news.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid". news.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "1200-year-old prayer book discovered in bog". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
^ "Record ID: BUC-5D0980 - Iron Age coin hoard". The Portable Antiquities Scheme. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
^ "What lies beneath". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
^ "Significant Clue to Leith's History Found in Pilrig Park". EdinburghGuide.com. Alstead Media. 2006-12-13. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
^ "Birthday honours: list in full". The Independent. 17 June 2006. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
^ Woolf, Alex (2006). "Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the geography of the Picts". The Scottish Historical Review. 85: 182–201. doi:10.3366/shr.2007.0029.
^ Lane, Alan (23 June 2006). "Leslie Alcock". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
^ "Antiquity Journal". www.antiquity.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2017.