* Excavations at Alalakh, Turkey, conducted by Leonard Woolley, begin ( continue until 1949, interrupted by World War II ).

* Excavations at Nagar, Syria, conducted by Max Mallowan, begin ( continue until 1938 ).

* Excavations at Jericho led by Kathleen Kenyon begin ( continues to 1958 ).

* Excavations at Shechem by a German team begin.

* May 8 – Excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base, near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes – the first two aircraft built by that company – supposedly buried there in 1919.

* Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.

* Excavations at Skara Brae under D. V. Clarke begin.

* Excavations of Nippur sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania begin ( continues through 1900 ).

* Excavations begin at Amri ( completed in 1962 ).

* Excavations at Nonsuch Palace, Surrey, England, by Martin Biddle begin ( completed in 1960 ).

* Excavations near Bogazköy by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin ( continued until 1999 ).

* Excavations at Troy begin by team from the University of Tübingen and the University of Cincinnati under the direction of Professor Manfred Korfmann.

* Excavations in Gibraltar by Dorothy Garrod begin ( continue to 1926 ).

* Excavations at Qatna by Robert du Mesnil du Boisson begin

* Excavations of Babylon by Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft directed by Robert Koldewey begin.

* Excavations at Nippur sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago begin directed by Richard C. Haines.

* Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Sterling begin.

* Excavations at Arikamedu ( Podouké ) by the Société de l ' histoire de l ' Inde française begin ( continue to 1945 ).

* Excavations of the Neolithic settlement at Argissa Magoula in Thessaly by Vladimir Milojčić of the University of Heidelberg begin ( continue to 1958 ).

* Excavations of the Danubian Neolithic settlement at Bylany in Bohemia begin.

* Excavations at Teppe Hasanlu begin ( continue to 1974 ).

* Excavations at Beit She ' an by the University of Pennsylvania begin ( continue to 1933 ).

* Excavations of the henge at Balfarg in Scotland, led by Roger Mercer, begin.

* Excavations at Mezhirich, Ukraine, by I. G. Pidoplichko begin ( continue to 1974 ).

Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.

Excavations at Uisnech in the 20th century provided evidence of large fires taking place.

* MacKie, E W 2002a Excavations at Dun Ardtreck, Skye, in 1964 and 1965.

Excavations at early urban sites show that some cities were sparsely populated political capitals, others were trade centers, and still other cities had a primarily religious focus.

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

Excavations of prehistoric sites by Louis Dupree and others suggest that early humans were living in what is now Afghanistan at least 50, 000 years ago, and that farming communities in Afghanistan were among the earliest in the world.

Excavations at Mathura revealed many Jain statues from the time of the Kushan Empire.

* 1948 Excavations at the Jewry Wall Site, of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 15, Leicester, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1948.

* 1959 Excavations at Southwark, Papers of Surrey Archaeological Society 5, 1959.

* 1960 Excavations at Jericho-Volume I Tombs Excavated in 1952-4, London 1960.

* 1965 Excavations at Jericho-Volume II Tombs Excavated in 1955-8, London, 1965.

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

Excavations at thé site of Sinthiou Bara, near Matam, have proved particularly fruitful.

* Excavations at Stonehenge

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, The Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Second Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Third Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Fourth Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1924.

* Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during 1925 and 1926.

Excavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known " Minoan " site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

( 1928 ) Excavations at Wookey Hole and other Mendip caves 1926-7.