2022 In Archaeology

This page lists significant events of 2022 in archaeology.

List of years in archaeology (table)
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Excavations

    February
    July

Finds

    January
  • 24 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of thousands of prehistoric pits during an electromagnetic induction field survey around Stonehenge
  • 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.
    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.
  • 2 – Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old complete hominin vertebra. 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.
  • 3
  • 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 – 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.
  • 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.
    March
  • 1 – A 19th-century drontheim fishing vessel was uncovered by storms on the beach at Portrush in Northern Ireland.
  • 5 – Discovery of wreck of Endurance (1912 ship) under the Antarctic ice.
  • 8 – 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.
  • 15 – Discovery of a 1,500-year-old silver extraction site and a lead-lined coffin inside a stone mausoleum in England was announced.
  • 19 – Five well-decorated ancient tombs found at the Saqqara necropolis were put on display in Cairo. They date back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt, around 2700BC to 2200BC.
    April
    May
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 20 – Archaeologists reported the rediscovery of Orconectes sheltae at Shelta Cave for the first time since 1988 in Huntsville, USA.
  • 22 - More than 2,500 roman coins have been found in San Casciano dei Bagni.
  • 23 - Several objects, including the head of the Heracles of Antikythera, from the Antikythera wreck in Greece.
  • 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.
  • 30 – 250 sarcophagi and 150 statuettes were displayed at Saqqara, dated back to the Late Period.
  • 30 – Discovery of a 1,800-year-old well-preserved geometric patterned floor mosaic was announced in Pergamon, Turkey.
    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.
  • 7 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of a poorly preserved single-edged sabre among the ruins of a monastery on the coast of Chalcidice, Greece.
  • 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.
  • 22 – Wreck of destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413), sunk in the Battle off Samar (1944), was located by submersible in the Philippine Sea at a depth of 6,895 metres (22,621 ft), making it the deepest wreck identified at this date.
  • 26 – Turkish-Mongolian archaeologists announced the discovery of the ruins of a summer palace (caravanserai) thought to have been constructed by the Mongol Ilkhanate State ruler Hulagu Khan and decorated with swastika or "tamga" shaped roof tiles in the 1260s.
    July
    August
  • 2 – A Bronze Age cemetery with 8 burials including an outstanding young woman's treasure discovered in Mány, Hungary.
  • 4 – Archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announced the discovery of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra.
  • 13 – Archaeologists announced that they had discovered a child skeleton in an oval-shaped pit in Tozkoparan Mound in Pertek district, Turkey.
  • 25 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of the 17 inches long Roman Period phallic sculpture carved on a stone in El Higuerón, Spain.
    September
  • A child's leather shoe dating to 2800BP is found on the shore of the Thames Estuary, the oldest shoe found in the British Isles.
    October
  • 12 – Discovery of a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mosaic, measuring 20 by 6 metres (66 ft × 20 ft), under a building in Al-Rastan, Syria, announced.
  • 28 – Discovery of a second mosaic at a Roman villa site in Rutland, in the midlands of England, announced.
    November
    December
  • A mosaic at Publius Vedius Pollio's villa is discovered in Pausylipon, Naples
  • A viking grave has discovered in western Oslo, Norway.
  • 168 more Nazca Lines were announced to have been identified by a joint Japanese-Peruvian team, bringing the total discovered to 358.
  • A roman pantheon is discovered in the Netherlands, in Zevenaar.

Events

    June
  • Chickens were first tempted down from trees by rice at Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand, research suggests.
  • 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.
    October
    November

Deaths

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