The year 1945 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations Mortimer Wheeler excavates at Arikamedu in Puducherry. Finds December - Nag Hammadi library in Egypt. Miscellaneous W. F. Grimes succeeds Mortimer Wheeler as director of the London Museum. Births January 13 - Francis Pryor, English archaeologist February 19 - Barbara Adams, English egyptologist (d. 2002) April 16 - Vladas Žulkus, Lithuanian underwater archaeologist October 25 - J. P. Mallory, Irish American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist James Peter Allen, American Egyptologist Deaths March 31 - Harriet Boyd Hawes, American archaeologist (b. 1871) May 5 - Edgar James Banks, American antiquarian (b. 1866) May 31 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (b. 1865) 9 December - Alfred Lucas, English analytical chemist and archaeologist, part of Howard Carter's team at the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (b. 1867) References Archaeology Archaeology Archaeology by year