Site of Masada discovered.
Karl Richard Lepsius begins an expedition to Egypt and the Sudan commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia.
W. F. Ainsworth publishes the first report on Üçayak Byzantine Church.
Karl Lepsius produces the first modern list of pyramids.
David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
First known use of the term "Industrial archaeology".
12 January: Teoberto Maler, Mayanist
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