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1802 in archaeology

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The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Finds

  • May 24/25 - A loculus in the Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome is located and opened, revealing remains believed at this time to be of the early Christian martyr Philomena.

Publications

  • Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac.
  • Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie.

Other events

  • The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display.
  • Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform.

Births

  • Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).

References

References

  1. O'Sullivan, Paul. (1993). "St. Philomena, The Wonder-Worker". TAN Books.
  2. (2006). "From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing". Oxford University Press, USA.
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