Finds
- Continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China led by Davidson Black uncover more fossils of a new species he has dubbed Sinanthropus pekinensis.
- Ruins of Ugarit.
- First inscriptions of Byblos syllabary excavated by Maurice Dunand.
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