1910 in archaeology

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.
• 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.

Finds

• 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.

Events

• United Fruit Company purchases land in Guatemala including the Maya site of Quiriguá; 30 acres 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, is founded by the East Africa Natural History Society.

Births

• February 13 – Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist.
• May 3 – Anne Strachan Robertson, Scottish archaeologist and numismatist.
• May 28 – Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist.
• July 10 – Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist.
• August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist.

Deaths

• May 26 – Cyrus Thomas, American ethnologist and archaeologist.
• June 22 – Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist.
• August 12 – Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar.
• August 23 – Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist.