1918 in archaeology

Explorations

Excavations

• Ballshi inscription, a 9th-century epigraph testifying to the christianization of Bulgaria

  Publications

Finds

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

• 11 February - Anne Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist, co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows
• 8 March - Mendel L. Peterson, American underwater archaeologist
• 24 June - Elizabeth Eames, English archaeologist
• 20 August - Crystal Bennett, Alderney-born archaeologist of Jordan
• 25 October - Donald Wiseman, Professor of Assyriology at the University of London
• 18 December - Joyce Reynolds, English epigrapher

  Deaths

• 27 January - Canon William Greenwell, English archaeologist notable for his Grimes Graves excavations