Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1862.

• Re-excavation of Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in eastern England under direction of landowner Septimus Davidson; a ship burial is uncovered.

• The Painted Cave of Galdar discovered at Gáldar, Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria.
• The Apollo Omphalos in Athens, Greece.

• Napoleon III establishes the National Archaeological Museum of France in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.^[1]

• May 27: Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist (died 1934)
• October 26: Thomas J. Preston, Jr., American archaeologist (died 1955)
• November 26: Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (died 1943)

• List of years in archaeology
• 1861 in archaeology
• 1863 in archaeology