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Excavations

July – Fragment A of the Tel Dan Stele (9th–8th century BCE) is excavated in Israel.
The Guodian Chu Slips, the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, written on bamboo, are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen (Hubei province of China) and dated before 300 BCE (later Warring States period).^[1]
In Patara the Stadiasmus Patarensis is unearthed. The monumental milestone provides information on the Roman road network in the province of Lycia et Pamphylia, giving place names and distances.

Тодорова, Х. , Иван Вайсов -"Новокаменната епоха в България"( Todorova, H. , Ivan Vaisov -The Neolithic period in Bulgaria) , Издателство Наука и Изкуство( Science and Art Publishing House), Sofia, 1993
Barry Cunliffe – Wessex to AD 1000 (Longman).
Sarah Milledge Nelson – The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).

Conservators use a sonar probe mounted with two miniature video cameras to remove any remaining clay from inside the Riace bronzes.