1907 in Archaeology - Finds

Finds

  • October 21 - Jaw of Homo heidelbergensis (Mauer 1) found.
  • Aurel Stein discovers the Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".

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