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1680s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Excavations

  • 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma.

    • Other events

  • 1683: June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens in Oxford. The Rev. Robert Hunt donates the limestone false door stele of Sheri from Saqqara (Fourth Dynasty of Egypt), one of the first large Middle Eastern sculptures seen in Western Europe.

    • Births

  • 1685: approximate date - John Horsley, English archaeologist (died 1732)
  • 1687: November 7 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian (died 1765)

    • Deaths

  • 1689: November 26 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (born 1635)

    • References

    1680s in archaeology Wikipedia
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