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1829 in archaeology

Explorations

'Charles Masson' (James Lewis) explores the Indus Valley Civilisation and locates the site of Harappa.

Excavations

First excavations at Olympia, Greece by an expedition led by Abel Blouet
Yorkshire Philosophical Society concludes excavation of St Mary's Abbey, York, England, prior to construction of the Yorkshire Museum on part of the site.

Finds

Engis 2, part of the skull of a young child and other bones, recognised in 1936 as the first known Neanderthal fossil, is found in the Awirs cave near Engis in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) by Philippe-Charles Schmerling.

Deaths

10 May - Thomas Young, English Egyptologist (b. 1773)

References

Masson, Charles. (1842). "Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab".
"Olympia".
"Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey: History of York".
Schmerling, Philippe-Charles. (1833). "Recherches sur les ossements fossiles découverts dans les cavernes de la Province de Liège". P.-J. Collardin.
"Thomas Young".

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