1998 in archaeology

The year 1998 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Location of site of Portuguese carrack Esmeralda wrecked off the coast of Oman in 1503.
Tell Ali Muntar, a Bronze Age settlement in Palestine, is surveyed by the Gaza Research Project

August - Excavation begins at the Belitung shipwreck, an Arab dhow wrecked off Belitung island in Indonesia about 830 AD discovered earlier in the year; it will yield the biggest single collection of Tang dynasty treasures found in one location.
October - Excavation begins at "Seahenge", a prehistoric timber circle off Holme-next-the-Sea in England discovered earlier in the year.
November 5-20 - British female Mark IV tank D51 Deborah, knocked out at the Battle of Cambrai (1917), at Flesquières in the north of France.
Igeum-dong, a settlement-burial-ceremonial site of the Mumun Pottery Period in Sacheon, Korea.
Excavations at Urkesh by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft.
Excavations begin at Pichvnari in Georgia by an Anglo-Georgian joint team.
Excavations begin at Taposiris Magna in Egypt.

Bronze Age Tell es-Sakan in the State of Palestine was discovered during construction of a residential building complex.
September - The largest Shapwick Hoard of Roman coins, including the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Britain.Whydah Gally, wrecked off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1717, the first authenticated pirate shipwreck ever discovered.
Artognou stone found at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall.
World's oldest wet-rice agricultural feature, c. 800 BC, at Okhyeon site, Ulsan, Korea.
Human remains at 36 Craven Street, London, former home of Benjamin Franklin, probably dissected in the anatomy school run here by his friend, surgeon William Hewson, 1772-74.
A floor mosaic depicting Orpheus is found at Prusias ad Hypium in Turkey.

Flemming Kaul - Ships on Bronzes: a study in Bronze Age religion and iconography.
Ian M. Stead - The Salisbury Hoard.
Patricia Wattenmaker - Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia: specialized economy and the social uses of goods in an early complex society.

Exhibition is held at the Harvard University Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts: "The Sphinx and the Pyramids: One Hundred Years of American Archaeology at Giza". A model of the Giza plateau is prepared for it.