Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1933.

Explorations

• Hull of Henry V of England's flagship Grace Dieu identified in the River Hamble.^[1]

Excavations

• Excavations at Et-Tell by Judith Marquet-Krause begin (continue through 1935).
• Excavations at Tell Arpachiyah by Max Mallowan and John Cruikshank Rose of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
• Excavations at Tepe Sialk by Roman Ghirshman begin (continue in 1934 and 1937).
• Excavation of mastaba of Senewosret-Ankh at Lisht in Egypt by Metropolitan Museum of Art concludes.
• Excavations at Tintagel Castle by C. A. Ralegh Radford begin (continue through 1938).
• Gordon Vivian begins preservation work at Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ket and Casa Rinconada (through 1937).

Finds

• August 9 - Hoard of silver denarii and a fragment of tartan cloth found at Falkirk, Scotland.^[2][3]
• Ancient city of Mari, Syria.
• Rock art at Tassili n'Ajjer.
• Submerged site of Heracleion in Egypt is identified from the air.^[4]

Publications

• Stuart Piggott and Grahame Clark - "The age of the British flint mines", Antiquity.^[5]

Births

• May 11 - Anna Marguerite McCann, American underwater archaeologist (d. 2017)
• June 9 - Jerzy Kolendo, Polish archaeologist (d. 2014)^[6]
• August 10 - Denise Schmandt-Besserat, French-born archaeologist specialising in the origins of writing and information management
• November 5 – Sonia Elizabeth Chadwick, British early mediaeval archaeologist (d. 1999)^[7]
• Don Brothwell, British archaeologist (d. 2016)^[8]
• Christos G. Doumas, Greek archaeologist
• Robert Sténuit, Belgian underwater archaeologist

Deaths

• February 4 - Archibald Sayce, English Assyriologist (b. 1845)
• July 13 - Mary Brodrick, English Egyptologist (b. c.1858)