12 – Archaeologists from
The University of Manchester have excavated for the first time the 5,000-year-old
Neolithic chamber tomb linked to
King Arthur, the legendary ruler of
Camelot. The excavation was carried out around the chamber of nine upright stones weighing more than 25 tons in present-day
Herefordshire,
England.[2][3]
Finds
January
24 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of thousands of
prehistoric pits during an electromagnetic induction
field survey around
Stonehenge[4]
25 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of an intact 2,000-year-old blue glass
bowl with a trim rim and a vertical stripe pattern in the Dutch city of
Nijmegen in
Netherlands.[5][6]
February
1 – Velia excavation reported the discovery of two well-preserved
bronze Greek helmets with
Etruscan design, the remains of a painted brick wall and vases at the site of
Velia in
Italy.[7][8]
2 – Archaeologists from the
Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old complete
homininvertebra. The fossilized bone belonging to a juvenile between the ages of 6-12 is estimated as the oldest evidence of ancient hominini in the
Middle East.[9][10]
4 – Around 40 skeletons with their skulls relocated are among 425 bodies exhumed by archaeologists from a large Roman cemetery in
Buckinghamshire, England, on the course of
HS2, it is announced.[14]
14 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of 1,000-1,200 years-old six mummified children in
Peru, thought to have been sacrificed, probably to accompany a dead elite man to the afterlife.[15]
22 – Discovery of a large, well-preserved Roman mosaic, believed to date from A.D. 175–225 was announced by the researchers from the
Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) in
Southwark district in
London.[16][17]
March
1 – A 19th-century drontheim fishing vessel was uncovered by storms on the beach at
Portrush in Northern Ireland.[18]
Archaeologists conducted
radiocarbon analyses and announced the dating of a curved
hunting bow discovered in 2021. The bow was probably 460 years old, and its origin ranged from 1506 to 1660.[20][21]
Archaeologists announced that photographic evidence of 8,000-year-old humans excavated in the valley of the
Sado River in Portugal during the 1960s indicates some deliberate mummification, making them the world's oldest known
mummies.[22]
3 – Research into the inscriptions and use of several hundred
astragali – animal knucklebone gaming dice – used 2,300 years ago and found at the
Maresha-Bet Guvrin National Park in southern Israel, is published.[29][30]
9 – Discovery of the nearly 4,300-year-old tomb of an ancient Egyptian high-ranked person who handled royal, sealed documents of pharaoh was announced at
Saqqara,
Egypt.[31][32]
20 – Archaeologists reported the rediscovery of Orconectes sheltae at
Shelta Cave for the first time since 1988 in
Huntsville,
USA.[33]
27 – Archaeologists reported the discovery of 1,400-year-old remains of the Mayan site so-called Xiol on the outskirts of
Mérida with a large central plaza and at least 12 buildings, workshops, burial places of adults and children, and an
altar that served a ritual purpose.[36][37]
30 – 250 sarcophagi and 150 statuettes were displayed at
Saqqara, dated back to the
Late Period.[38]
30 – Discovery of a 1,800-year-old well-preserved geometric patterned floor
mosaic was announced in
Pergamon,
Turkey.[39]
June
4 – Archaeologists from the Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced the discovery of a 1,300-year-old nine-inch-tall plaster head statue indicating a young
Hun Hunahpu, the Maya’s mythological maize god.[40][41]
7 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of a poorly preserved single-edged
sabre among the ruins of a monastery on the coast of
Chalcidice,
Greece.[42]
14 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of a turtle shell-shaped box, a sacrificial altar and pits full of gold, bronze and jade relics at the
Sanxingdui archaeological site,
China.[43]
26 – Turkish-Mongolian archaeologists announced the discovery of the ruins of a summer palace (
caravanserai) thought to have been constructed by the
MongolIlkhanate State ruler
Hulagu Khan and decorated with
swastika or "
tamga" shaped roof tiles in the 1260s.[45]
July
1 – Dutch archaeologists have announced that they have discovered the remains of a nearly 2,000-year-old temple complex where
Roman soldiers once paid tribute to gods and goddesses in the village of Herwen-Hemeling in
the Netherlands.[46][47]
7 – Discovery of a 2.8 cm long 5.200 years old stone carving
chrysalis in a semi-crypt house was announced at the Shangguo Site in
Wenxi County.[49][50]
12 – Archaeologists from the
British Museum unearthed a
Roman mosaic dating to the 4th century AD and hundreds of objects from regularly positioned such as jewelry, cash, roof tiles and kiln bricks at
Hinton St Mary in
Dorset.[55]
18 – The Egyptian-French archaeological mission of the European Institute of Underwater Archeology announced the discovery of ancient Greek shipwreck with lots of treasures date back to the
Ptolemaic era in
Heracleion,
Egypt.[62][63]
A mosaic at Publius Vedius Pollio's villa is discovered in Pausylipon, Naples[81]
A viking grave has discovered in western Oslo, Norway.[82]
168 more Nazca Lines were announced to have been identified by a joint Japanese-Peruvian team, bringing the total discovered to 358.[83]
A roman pantheon is discovered in the Netherlands, in Zevenaar.[84]
Events
June
Chickens were first tempted down from trees by rice at Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand, research suggests.[85][86]
10 – A wreck located in 2007 off the
Norfolk coast of England by divers is disclosed to be
HMS Gloucester (1654) which ran aground on a sandbank in 1682 with the future King
James II of England on board.[87]
October
5/6 –
Ancient DNA analysis of
Updown Girl, a 7th century
Anglo-Saxon child burial in south-east England discovered in 1989, indicates that she has
West African ancestry in her paternal line, it is announced.[88][89]
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