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1640s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1640s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

  • 1649: John Aubrey describes the megaliths at Avebury, England.

    • Publications

  • 1643: Athanasius Kircher, Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta.
  • 1646: John Greaves, Pyramidographia, or a Description of the Pyramids in Ægypt.

    • Births

  • 1646: April 4 - Antoine Galland (died 1715).
  • 1647: Jacques Spon (d. 1685), French doctor and archaeologist.

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