2006 in archaeology

• Tomb of the Roaring Lions{{cite web|last1=McMahon|first1=Barbara|title=Italian 'tomb raider' reveals burial chamber|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jun/18/italy.arts|website=The Observer|accessdate=22 December 2017|date=18 June 2006}}

• KV63 - the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.{{cite web|title=Final coffin opened in Egyptian chamber|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13597524/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/final-coffin-opened-egyptian-chamber/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405071656/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13597524/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/final-coffin-opened-egyptian-chamber|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2013|website=msnbc.com|accessdate=10 January 2018|language=en|date=28 June 2006}}
• Ancient pre-Inca pet cemetery dated to the Chiribaya culture found south of Lima, Peru.{{cite web|title=Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid|url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061127-peru-tombs.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201173527/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061127-peru-tombs.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 1, 2006|website=news.nationalgeographic.com|accessdate=22 December 2017}}
• Ancient pre-Inca tombs complex dated to Middle Sican culture discovered under the Huaca Loro pyramid in Peru; 12 ceremonial tumi knives found.{{cite web|title=Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061127-peru-tombs.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201173527/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061127-peru-tombs.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 1, 2006|website=news.nationalgeographic.com|accessdate=22 December 2017}}
• The Jewish cemetery, Lucena (Andalusia), the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, is discovered during construction of the city's southern ring road and excavated.
• 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.{{cite web|title=1200-year-old prayer book discovered in bog|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/world/1200yearold-prayer-book-discovered-in-bog/2006/07/26/1153816221849.html|website=www.smh.com.au|date=26 July 2006 |accessdate=2018-03-01|language=en}}
• December
• Little Horwood Hoard of Iron Age gold staters from Buckinghamshire, England.{{cite web|title=Record ID: BUC-5D0980 - Iron Age coin hoard|url=https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/548376|website=The Portable Antiquities Scheme|accessdate=2018-03-01|language=en}}
• River Boyne shipwreck of 1530s found off Drogheda in Ireland.{{cite news|title=What lies beneath|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/what-lies-beneath-1.608652|newspaper=The Irish Times|accessdate=2018-03-01}}
• Inscriptions in an early form of Linear Elamite discovered at Jiroft in Iran.
• Roman sarcophagus found during work at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, well outside the walls of Londinium.{{cite news|title=Ancient body prompts new theories|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6196972.stm|work=BBC News|date=2006-12-01|accessdate=2024-07-14}}
• Defences from the Siege of Leith (1560) discovered in Pilrig, Edinburgh, Scotland.{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburghguide.com/story/architecture/2|title=Significant Clue to Leith's History Found in Pilrig Park|work=EdinburghGuide.com|publisher=Alstead Media|date=2006-12-13|accessdate=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706191619/http://www.edinburghguide.com/story/architecture/2|archive-date=2019-07-06|url-status=dead}}
• Wreck of Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine, sunk in the 1942 attack on Sydney Harbour, discovered off Sydney's Northern Beaches.

• 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}}

• June - Barry Cunliffe knighted.{{cite web|title=Birthday honours: list in full|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/birthday-honours-list-in-full-6097967.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/birthday-honours-list-in-full-6097967.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription|website=The Independent|accessdate=14 January 2018|date=17 June 2006}}{{cbignore}}

• 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.{{cite journal|last=Woolf|first=Alex|year=2006|title=Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the geography of the Picts|journal=The Scottish Historical Review|volume=85|issue=2 |pages=182–201|doi=10.3366/shr.2007.0029|s2cid=161978981 }}
• 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.

• June 6 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (b. 1925){{cite web|last1=Lane|first1=Alan|title=Leslie Alcock|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/24/guardianobituaries.mainsection|website=The Guardian|accessdate=30 May 2017|date=23 June 2006}}
• August 2 - Richard Avent, British archaeologist, conservationist and civil servant (b. 1948){{Cite web |last=Wakelin |first=Peter |date=2006-08-25 |title=Obituary: Richard Avent |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/aug/25/guardianobituaries.mainsection |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}
• December 1 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist and McGill University professor (b. 1937){{cite web|title=Antiquity Journal|url=http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/tributes/trigger.html|website=www.antiquity.ac.uk|accessdate=13 March 2017}}

• List of years in archaeology
• Karnak
• Pompeii
• Mayapan - recent excavations, near cenote wells.

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