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1760s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

  • 1764: First systematic mapping of the Antonine Wall by William Roy.

Excavations

  • Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
  • 1757: Rev. Bryan Faussett begins excavations at Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in Kent, England.

Finds

  • 1761-1767: Carsten Niebuhr transcribes the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis.
  • 1765: Nathaniel Davison discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davison's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Publications

  • 1762: James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens.
  • 1764:
    • Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.
    • Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art").

Other events

  • 1764: French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using the inscriptions on the Cippi of Melqart from Malta.

Births

  • 1760:
    • January 6 - Richard Polwhele, Cornish antiquarian (d. 1838)
    • June 8 - Karl Böttiger, German archaeologist (d. 1835)
  • 1763:
    • November 19 - Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic and archaeologist (d. 1808)
    • Samuel Lysons, English antiquarian (d. 1819)
  • 1766: March 16? - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (d. 1875)
  • 1769:
    • March 23 - William Smith, English geologist (d. 1839)
    • August 23 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (d. 1832)
    • September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian explorer and writer (d. 1859)

Deaths

  • 1765:
    • March 3 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian (b. 1689)
    • September 5 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)
  • 1767: June 17 - Jean-Baptiste Greppo, French canon and archaeologist (b. 1712)
  • 1768: June 8 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art critic and archaeologist (b. 1717)

References

References

  1. "James 'Athenian' Stuart, 1713-1788".
  2. (2011). "Siebentes Buch: Zeit des Weltkrieges (1790–1815): Phantastische Dichtung. Abteilung I". Walter de Gruyter.
  3. "Samuel Lysons".
  4. "William Smith - British geologist".
  5. "Georges Cuvier".
  6. "Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières, count de Caylus".
  7. "Johann Winckelmann - German art historian".
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