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1760s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

  • 1764: First systematic mapping of the Antonine Wall by William Roy.

    • Excavations

  • Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

    • Finds

  • 1761-1767: Carsten Niebuhr transcribes the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis.
  • 1765: Nathaniel Davison discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davison's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    • Publications

  • 1762: James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens.
  • 1764
  • Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art").

    • Other events

  • 1764: French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using the inscriptions on the Cippi of Melqart from Malta.

    • Births

  • 1760: June 8 - Karl Böttiger, German archaeologist (died 1835)
  • 1763: November 19 - Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic and archaeologist (died 1808)
  • 1766: March 16? - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (died 1875)
  • 1769: March 23 - William Smith, English (died 1875)
  • 1769: August 23 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (died 1832)
  • 1769: September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian explorer and writer (died 1859)

    • Deaths

  • 1765: March 3 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian (born 1689)

    • References

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