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1660s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1660s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Finds

  • 1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have been constructed by the Emperor Constantine on the site of Saint Eustace's vision (later reconstructed as the Santuario della Mentorella).

    • Other events

  • 1667: Henry Howard donates the first of the Arundel marbles to the University of Oxford (displayed in Ashmolean Museum).

    • Deaths

  • 1661: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (b. c.1600)

    • References

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