Start of salvage excavations at Nevali Cori, to be flooded by dam.
July – Fragment A of the Tel Dan Stele (9th–8th century BCE) is excavated in Israel.
The Guodian Chu Slips, the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, written on bamboo, are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen (Hubei province of China) and dated before 300 BCE (later Warring States period).
In Patara the Stadiasmus Patarensis is unearthed. The monumental milestone provides information on the Roman road network in the province of Lycia et Pamphylia, giving place names and distances.
Barry Cunliffe – Wessex to AD 1000 (Longman).
Sarah Milledge Nelson – The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).
Х. Тодорова, Иван Вайсов (H. Todorova, Ivan Vaisov) – "Новокаменната епоха в България" ("The Neolithic period in Bulgaria") (Издателство Наука и Изкуство (Science and Art Publishing House), Sofia).
Conservators use a sonar probe mounted with two miniature video cameras to remove any remaining clay from inside the Riace bronzes.
Kim Won-yong, the Father of Korean Archaeology, professor at Seoul National University (b. 1922).
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