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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1910.

Excavations

Francis Llewellyn Griffith begins a 4-year series of excavations in Nubia.
Edgar Lee Hewett begins a 4-year project at Quiriguá.
Antonios Keramopoulos excavates the temple of Apollo in Thebes, Greece.^[1]
St Piran's Oratory, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England.
Coldrum Long Barrow in southeast England.
Jesús Carballo begins the first excavations at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain.
Robert Ranulph Marett begins a 4-year project at the Paleolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade on Jersey, Channel Islands.^[2]

December – 'Meroë Head' looted from a bronze statue of Roman emperor Augustus buried in the Kushite site of Meroë in modern Sudan, excavated by John Garstang.^[3]

United Fruit Company purchases land in Guatemala including the Maya site of Quiriguá; 30 acres (120,000 m²) including and around the ruins are set aside as an archaeological zone.
The National Museums of Kenya, a governmental body maintaining several museums and monuments in Kenya (with headquarters in Nairobi), is founded by the East Africa Natural History Society.

February 13 – Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1992).
May 3 – Anne Strachan Robertson, Scottish archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1997).^[4]
May 28 – Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist (d. 1996).^[5]
July 10 – Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist (d. 2007).^[6]
August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (d. 1996).^[7]

^ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
^ — (1916). "The Site, Fauna, and Industry of La Cotte de St. Brelade, Jersey". Archaeologia. LXVII. London.
^ Opper, Thorsten (2014). The Meroë Head of Augustus. Objects in Focus. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714150918.
^ "Obituary: Professor Anne Robertson". The Independent. November 15, 1997. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
^ "Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott". The Independent. September 27, 1996. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
^ Holley, Joe (January 14, 2008). "Pompeian Historian Wilhelmina Jashemski". Washington Post. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
^ "Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes". The Independent. March 20, 1996. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2017.