1922 in archaeology

Excavations

• September - Excavations at Coldrum Long Barrow in south east England resumed by architect E. W. Filkins.
• November 4 - Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb. He opens it in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Herbert's daughter, Evelyn Beauchamp, on November 26.
• First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill, Avebury, England.
• Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.
• Excavations at Euphrates, site of Dura-Europos, by Franz Cumont.
• Excavations at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
• Excavations at Sutton Courtenay Anglo-Saxon village in England by Edward Thurlow Leeds.

  Explorations

• Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford.
• Mohenjo-daro rediscovered by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay of the Archaeological Survey of India.
• First of four successive American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils of Indricotherium, Protoceratops, a nest of Protoceratops eggs, Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, none of which were known before.

  Finds

• Venus of Lespugue.

  Publications

• Alfred Watkins - Early British Trackways.

  Births

• March 31 - Richard Daugherty, American archaeologist
• July 12 - Michael Ventris, English co-decipherer of Linear B.
• August 3 - Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist of Buddhist grottoes
• November 19 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics.
• Kim Won-yong, "doyen of Korean archaeology" and Seoul National University professor.

  Deaths

• November 23 - Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist.