1844 in archaeology

Explorations

• Karl Richard Lepsius examines, describes, and maps Meroë; and partially explores the upper passage of tomb KV20 in the Valley of the Kings.

Excavations

• Frances Stackhouse Acton excavates a Roman villa in the grounds of her home at Acton Scott in England.

Finds

• The François Vase is discovered in fragments at Chiusi in Tuscany by Alessandro François.
• Nendrum Monastery is located on Hadrian's Wall by William Reeves.
• Discovery of Rudchester Mithraeum in the north of Ireland.

Publications

• • Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America* by Frederick Catherwood, with color lithographs of ruins of the Maya civilization.
• March - The Archaeological Journal first published. The first volume includes Frederick Lukis's "Observations on the primeval antiquities of the Channel Islands" (pp. 144–52).

Births

• August 3 - Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, French archaeologist of Iran (d. 1920)

References

References

1. Tyldesley, Joyce. (1996). "Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh". Penguin Books.
2. (2012). "Description of a Roman Villa discovered at Acton Scott, near Church Stretton, in Shropshire, in 1817; with an account of further researches made in July, 1844: Communicated in a Letter from Mrs. Frances Stackhouse Acton to the Very Reverend the Dean of Hereford". Archaeologia.
3. Sorensen, Lee. (2018-03-23). "François, Alessandro". Dictionary of Art Historians.
4. (1845). "Observations on the Primeval Antiquities of the Channel Islands". Archaeological Journal.