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1690s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Finds

  • 1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered near Athelney in England.
  • 1697 - Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb discovered in Lebanon by Henry Maundrell.

    • Other events

  • 1693 - John Aubrey completes his Monumenta Britannica, or, A miscellanie of British antiquities in manuscript.

    • Births

  • 1690: February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, British antiquarian (died 1755)
  • 1692: October 31 - Comte de Caylus (died 1765).
  • 1696: Francis Drake (died 1771)

    • Deaths

  • 1697: June - John Aubrey (born 1626)
  • 1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini (born 1698)

    • References

    1690s in archaeology Wikipedia
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