2013 in archaeology

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The year 2013 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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May - Excavations conducted at the Sobibór Museum in Poland unearth an escape tunnel made by victims of the Holocaust in the Sobibor extermination camp.^[1]

February 4 - DNA evidence confirms that bones found in 2012 at the site of Greyfriars, Leicester, are those of King Richard III of England.^[2]
May - Happisburgh footprints, the oldest hominin footprints outside of Africa, dating to more than 800,000 years ago, are discovered on the beach at Happisburgh, Norfolk, England.^[3]
June - Chactún, a Mayan ruin, is discovered in Campeche, Mexico.^[4]
August - A 500-kg bronze statue of Apollo is found by the Palestinian fisherman Joudat Ghrab.^[5] Dated between the 5th and the 1st century BC, the statue was later seized by Hamas officials after it briefly appeared on eBay.^[5]

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A wreck found off the coast of modern-day Sweden is identified as the Danish flagship Gribshunden (sank 1495).^[6]

24 June: Mick Aston (born 1946), English archaeologist notable for his work with Time Team