Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1898.

• Exploration of the site of Assur by German archaeologists begins.

• J. E. Quibell excavates the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt.
• Excavations at Bremetennacum (Ribchester), Lancashire, England (1898–9).

• March - Victor Loret discovers Amenhotep II's mummy in his KV35 tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings within the original sarcophagus, together with a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom Pharaohs including Thutmose IV, Seti II and Ramesses III, IV and VI.^[1]
• Summer - The Bleasdale Circle, a Bronze Age timber and earthwork in Lancashire, England, is discovered by Thomas Kelsall.^[2]
• The Withypool Stone Circle (late Neolithic/early Bronze Age) on Exmoor, England, is discovered accidentally by Archibald Hamilton.
• The Narmer Palette is found by J. E. Quibell while excavating the royal residences of various early Egyptian kings at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt.
• The site of Karakorum is identified as the former Mongol capital by Nikolai Yadrintsev, who discovers the Orkhon script during the same expedition.
• Willie Peppé, excavating a stupa at Piprahwa Kot, discovers ashes claimed to be of Gautama Buddha.
• Purported finding of the Kensington Runestone in Minnesota.

• 22 August – Jaroslav Černý, Czech-born Egyptologist (d. 1970).
• 14 September – Ernest Nash, born Ernst Nathan, German-born student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography (d. 1974).^[3]
• 31 December – J. Eric S. Thompson, English archaeologist, student of the Maya civilization (d. 1975).^[4]

• 21 October – Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (b. 1832).

• List of years in archaeology
• 1897 in archaeology
• 1899 in archaeology