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1810 in archaeology

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The year 1810 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

  • Colosseum, Rome: The arena substructure is partly excavated during 1810-1814.
  • Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England: Second excavations by William Cunnington and Richard Colt Hoare.

Publications

  • Alexander von Humboldt publishes illustrated accounts of Pre-Columbian ruins of Mesoamerica including Mitla and Xochicalco.
  • Richard Colt Hoare begins publication of The Ancient History of Wiltshire in England.

Births

  • 11 April: Henry Rawlinson, English Assyriologist (d. 1895).
  • 26 July: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (d. 1865).

Deaths

  • 30 March: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist (b 1732).
  • 31 December: William Cunnington, English antiquarian (b. 1754).

References

References

  1. "Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson - British orientalist".
  2. "Lanzi, Luigi".
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