January 27 – Discovery of an extinct Homo bone under Penghu Strait in Taiwan named Penghu 1 is published.[8]
February 18 – Marine archaeologists and diving club members from the Israel Antiquities Authority announced that about 2,000 gold coins dating back more than 1,000 years have been discovered in Caesarea.[9]
Summer – Ice Age engravings dating from at least 12,000 BCE are found at Les Varines site on Jersey in the Channel Islands (part of the European continental mass when created), the earliest known art in the British Isles.[10]
June – Discovery of almost eight million animal mummies next to the sacred temple of Anubis is announced in Egypt, in Saqqara[11]
June 3 – Formal confirmation that a wreck first located in the 1980s off Cape Town, South Africa, is the PortugueseSão José Paquete Africa (sank 1794), the first and only confirmed find of a working slave ship sunk in transit with its human cargo aboard.[27][28]