The GAZAMAP project, an international collaboration between British and Palestinian organisations, surveyedTell es-Sakan andTell Ruqeish in the Gaza Strip.[1]
25 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of an intact 2,000-year-old blue glassbowl with a trim rim and a vertical stripe pattern in the Dutch city ofNijmegen inNetherlands.[9][10]
February
1 – Velia excavation reported the discovery of two well-preservedbronze Greek helmets withEtruscan design, the remains of a painted brick wall and vases at the site ofVelia inItaly.[11][12]
2 – Archaeologists from theIsrael Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old completehomininvertebra. The fossilized bone belonging to a juvenile between the ages of 6-12 is estimated as the oldest evidence of ancient hominini in theMiddle East.[13][14]
4 – Around 40 skeletons with their skulls relocated are among 425 bodies exhumed by archaeologists from a large Roman cemetery inBuckinghamshire, England, on the course ofHS2, it is announced.[18]
9 - Archeologists founded an inscription in Gemekan,Mojokerto,East Java, Indonesia during the temple excavation. The inscription was believed to date back to theMataram kingdom era.[19] The inscription was namedMasahar [id].[20]
14 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of 1,000-1,200 years-old six mummified children inPeru, thought to have been sacrificed, probably to accompany a dead elite man to the afterlife.[21]
22 – Discovery of a large, well-preserved Roman mosaic, believed to date from A.D. 175–225 was announced by the researchers from theMuseum of London Archaeology (MOLA) inSouthwark district inLondon.[22][23]
March
1 – A 19th-centurydrontheim fishing vessel was uncovered by storms on the beach atPortrush in Northern Ireland.[24]
Archaeologists conductedradiocarbon analyses and announced the dating of a curvedhunting bow discovered in 2021. The bow was probably 460 years old, and its origin ranged from 1506 to 1660.[26][27]
Archaeologists announced that photographic evidence of 8,000-year-old humans excavated in the valley of theSado River in Portugal during the 1960s indicates some deliberate mummification, making them the world's oldest knownmummies.[28]
3 – Research into the inscriptions and use of several hundredastragali – animal knucklebone gaming dice – used 2,300 years ago and found at theMaresha-Bet Guvrin National Park in southern Israel, is published.[35][36]
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 atSaqqara,Egypt.[37][38]
20 – Archaeologists reported the rediscovery of Orconectes sheltae atShelta Cave for the first time since 1988 inHuntsville,USA.[39]
27 – Archaeologists reported the discovery of 1,400-year-old remains of the Mayan site so-called Xiol on the outskirts ofMérida with a large central plaza and at least 12 buildings, workshops, burial places of adults and children, and analtar that served a ritual purpose.[42][43]
30 – 250 sarcophagi and 150 statuettes were displayed atSaqqara, dated back to theLate Period.[44]
30 – Discovery of a 1,800-year-old well-preserved geometric patterned floormosaic was announced inPergamon,Turkey.[45]
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 youngHun Hunahpu, the Maya's mythological maize god.[46][47]
7 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of a poorly preserved single-edgedsabre among the ruins of a monastery on the coast ofChalcidice,Greece.[48]
14 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of a turtle shell-shaped box, a sacrificial altar and pits full of gold, bronze and jade relics at theSanxingdui archaeological site,China.[49]
26 – Turkish-Mongolian archaeologists announced the discovery of the ruins of a summer palace (caravanserai) thought to have been constructed by theMongolIlkhanate State rulerHulagu Khan and decorated withswastika or "tamga" shaped roof tiles in the 1260s.[51]
July
1 – Dutch archaeologists have announced that they have discovered the remains of a nearly 2,000-year-old temple complex whereRoman soldiers once paid tribute to gods and goddesses in the village of Herwen-Hemeling inthe Netherlands.[52][53]
12 – Archaeologists from theBritish Museum unearthed aRoman mosaic dating to the 4th century AD and hundreds of objects from regularly positioned such as jewelry, cash, roof tiles and kiln bricks atHinton St Mary inDorset.[61]
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 thePtolemaic era inHeracleion,Egypt.[68][69]
Chickens were first tempted down from trees by rice at Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand, research suggests.[93][94]
10 – A wreck located in 2007 off theNorfolk coast of England by divers is disclosed to beHMS Gloucester which ran aground on a sandbank in 1682 with the future KingJames II of England on board.[95]
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