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January–August – Site of a sacristy at Westminster Abbey in London, a 13th century monastic burial site, excavated; remains of hundreds of bodies located.[1]
February – Mexico and Spain plan to search for the remains of Nuestra Señora de Juncal ("Our Lady of Juncal") ship, which sank off the coast of Mexico in 1631.[3]
March – Excavations at Richborough Castle in England start to uncover the Roman amphitheatre hidden under a mound here.[4]
May – Excavations in a hillfort at Tap o' Noth near Rhynie, Aberdeenshire in Scotland identify it as one of the largest ancient settlements ever discovered in the country.[5]
June 27 – Excavation of a Viking shipburial at Gjellestad near Halden in Norway located in 2018 begins.[6]
July:
Divers find an 11,000-year-old mining site for red ocher pigments at La Mina, a site inside a water-filled cave beneath Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico.[7]
A shipwreck which was found near Ma'agan Michael carrying amphorae with Christian and Muslim symbols, and dated back to the 7th century, has been excavated by the University of Haifa since 2016.[8]
Start of excavations at Cerne Abbas Gianthill figure in England, which will indicate a date range for construction of 700-1100CE — the late Anglo-Saxon period, and much later than expected.[9]
September:
Wreckage discovered in 2017 off the Mexican coast is identified as a 19th-century Mayan slave ship, La Unión.[10]
Excavations near Luxor, Egypt, begin, resulting in discovery of a 3,000-year-old lost city which is named Aten.[11]
October – Archaeological work on the Nazca Lines in Peru has revealed the outline of a cat.[12][13]
December – An international team of archaeologists discovers 66 Roman military sites in León, Palencia, Burgos and Cantabria provinces of Spain.[14]
23 – A cave with paintings of people and animals is discovered about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Mount Catherine, Sinai Peninsula, dating back to the Chalcolithic Period, c. 5th–4th millennium BCE.[17]
30 – 16 tombs with about 20 sarcophagi are found at Al-Ghoreifa area in Tuna el-Gebel, Egypt,[18] dating back to the 26th Dynasty.[19]
16 – Two small stone 'plaquettes' are found in the Leang Bulu Bettue cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia, date to a time between 26,000 and 14,000 years ago.[33]
17 – A bone circle of at least 60 mammoths is discovered at Kostenki, Russia, dating back to 25,000 years ago.[34]
31
A 5,000-year-old cultic area dedicated to Ningirsu is discovered in Girsu, Iraq.[35]
Ancient cairns used to bury neolithic tribespeople are discovered in the Cwmcelyn valley in Blaenau Gwent, Wales, dating back over 4,500 years ago.[36]
April
26 – Rock art depicting scenes of animals is discovered in the area of Wadi Al-Zulma in North Sinai, Egypt.[37]
3 – A 3,000-year-old Maya ceremonial platform, Aguada Fénix, about 1,400 m long, 400 m wide and 10–15 m tall has been discovered near the San Pedro River in Tabasco, Mexico. It is described as the oldest and the largest Mayan ceremonial site known.[47][48][49]
24 – Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth from Pechevalavato Lake in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in northern Siberia.[60]
27 – A 3rd-century woman statue is discovered in Perge, Anatolia.[61]
29 – A 1st-century Roman fort is uncovered at Burscough, England.[64]
30 – A 1,500-year-old Byzantine church is unearthed in Kfar Kama, Israel.[65]
August
Bones of a high-status 6th century male, the "Marlow Warlord", are found at a site overlooking the River Thames in Berkshire, England.[66]
4 – A prehistoric "Woodhenge" has been discovered at Perdigões, Évora District, Portugal.[67]
5 – 8,000-year-old fluted arrowheads have been found at sites in Oman and Yemen.[68]
17 – Discovery of fragments of Elizabethan and earlier books, manuscripts and textiles beneath attic floorboards of Oxburgh Hall in eastern England is reported.[69]
26– Archaeologists revealed a 5,000-year-old paint palette made of stone in the Seyitgazi district at the Küllüoba site. According to Türktaki, this palette was used for painting dishes.[71][72]
29 – 8,600-year-old Neolithic sewing tools are discovered at Ekşi Höyük, western Anatolia, in present-day Denizli Province.[73]
September
1,300 Celtic golden coins are discovered at a location in eastern England, dated back between 40 and 50 A.D.[74][75]
6 – A 2,400-year-old mask of the ancient Greek god Dionysus has been unearthed in Daskyleion, Anatolia.[76]
7 - A roman villa from Julius Caesar's age has been discovered in Pianura suburb, Naples.[77]
8 – An ancient lion statue has been found in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.[78]
9
An ancient stone pool, dating back to the fourth century BC, has been discovered between Rome and Ostia Antica in Italy.[79]
20 – Discovery during the month of 27 sealed wooden sarcophagi buried more than 2,500 years BCE inside a newly-located well at the sacred necropolis of Saqqara in Egypt is announced.[86]
22 – Mosaics of a 1600-year-old church have been discovered in Göktaş, Mardin Province, Anatolia.[87]
28 – A place of worship unearthed at Kahin Tepe, Kastamonu Province, Anatolia, dates back to between 12,000 and 7,000 BC.[89]
October
Rock art depicting animals is discovered inside Dunchraigaig Cairn in Kilmartin Glen in Scotland, estimated to date to between 4,000 and 5,000 BP, the earliest found in the country.[90]
3 – Egypt unveils 59 coffins of priests and clerks in Saqqara from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago.[91]
12
The sarcophagus of Djehuty Imhotep, a 26th Dynasty high priest, has been discovered in Al-Ghoreifa archaeological site in Minya, Egypt.[92]
21 – Remains of a 1,500 year-old Byzantine church (known as the Church of All Nations) with Greek inscriptions and the foundations of a Second Temple-era ritual bath (also known as a mikveh) are discovered in Gethsemane.[101][102][103]
22 – Mosaic panels are discovered in Baalbek, Lebanon, dated back to the Roman era.[104]
27 – Archaeologists from the University of Haifa announced the discovery of the oldest known tool used for grinding or scraping, dating back about 350,000 years at the Tabun Cave at Mount Carmel site.[105][106]
29 – A 1,840-year-old vessel is discovered near the Baicaopo Village, Yibin District in the city of Luoyang, China, which helps to confirm the tomb location of Emperor Huan of Han.[107]
30 – Four cisterns are discovered under a seven-meter earth fill in Metropolis, Anatolia, which have the capacity to carry 600 tons of water and to endure a long siege.[108]
Undated
During a 3rd excavation campaign at the site of Tal Ganoub Qasr al-Agouz in the Bahariya Oasis of Egypt, a Christian monastic site active in the 5th century AD is discovered by a French-Norwegian team.[109]
A high-status Roman villa site containing substantial portions of a mosaic depicting scenes from the Trojan War is found by chance on a farm in Rutland, England.[110]
July – Gold hunters who have used heavy machinery to excavate the two millennia-old Jabal Maragha archaeological site in the Bayuda Desert, Sudan, destroying it, having been arrested and had their equipment seized, are released without charges.[117][118]
