Finds
- July 13 - An American Museum of Natural History expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews is the first in the world to discover fossil dinosaur eggs. Initially thought to belong to the ceratopsian Protoceratops, they were determined in 1995 actually to belong to the theropod Oviraptor.
- Material unearthed by Otto Zdansky's excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China would eventually yield two human molars, but these finds were not announced until 1926.
- Copper Bull from Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur.
- Bronze Age hoard found in Huelva harbour.
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