Paul-Émile Botta begins excavations at Khorsabad.
Amateur excavations of Jordan Hill Roman Temple in Dorset, England.
Sarre Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Kent, England.
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens with illustrations by Frederick Catherwood
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott
Mittelitalien vor den Zeiten der römischen Herrschaft, nach den Denkmälern by Wilhelm Ludwig Abeken
September: The Alexander Mosaic is moved from Pompeii to Naples.
British Archaeological Association founded.
June 4 - Charles Conrad Abbott (d. 1919), American archaeologist and naturalist
September 9 - Oscar Montelius (d. 1921), Swedish archaeologist
January 29 - Wilhelm Ludwig Abeken (b. 1813), German Classical archaeologist
June 4 - Ippolito Rosellini (b. 1843), Tuscan Egyptologist
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