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1660s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1660s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have been constructed by the Emperor Constantine on the site of Saint Eustace's vision (later reconstructed as the Santuario della Mentorella).
1667: The Capuan bust of Hannibal is found in Capua, Italy.
1669: One of a pair of gold sun-discs from ca. 2500–2150 BCE is found at Ballyshannon in Ireland.

Events

1667: Henry Howard donates the first of the Arundel marbles to the University of Oxford (displayed in Ashmolean Museum).

Births

1690: Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary (d. 1709)

Deaths

1661: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (b. c.1600)

References

[[Theodore Ayrault Dodge]]. (1896). "Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War". Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
[[Britannia (Camden). Camden's ''Britannia'']]. 1695 edn.
"Ballyshannon 'Sun Disc'". [[Ashmolean Museum]].
"The Discovery Service".
"Lhuyd, Edward".

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