Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1925.
Explorations
Excavations
Kaminaljuyu Mayan site, by Manuel Gamino. Kültepe in Turkey, by Bedřich Hrozný. Excavations in Gibraltar by Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1926). October - Tin Hinan Tomb in the Sahara located and opened by Byron Khun de Prorok. December - Complete excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Émile Baraize begins (continues to 1936).
Publications
John Beazley - Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils
V. Gordon Childe - The Dawn of European Civilization. Aleš Hrdlička - The Old Americans.
Finds
July 13 - "Venus of Dolní Věstonice" at Dolní Věstonice in Moravia. October 28 - Howard Carter reveals the golden death mask of Tutenkhamun. Ennigaldi-Nanna's Museum at Ur is discovered by Leonard Woolley. "Venus of Savignano" near Savignano sul Panaro in Italy. "Galilee skull" in Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh. The Aurignacian settlement site at Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt is discovered by local schoolteacher E. Thiersch. Belgic pottery at Swarling, Kent. Makapansgat pebble in South Africa.
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
January 22 - John Davies Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2011) April 24 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (d. 2006) November 14 - James Mellaart, British archaeologist. (d. 2012)
Deaths
February 4 - Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (b. 1855).