Lt. James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon. Illustrations created by the Kern brothers are included in a government report.
Site of Uruk discovered by William Kennett Loftus.
Tunnel dug into Silbury Hill.
Austen H. Layard's Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh.
Karl Richard Lepsius' Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien.
Find on Whaddon Chase, Buckinghamshire, England of a hoard of Iron Age gold staters.
November 8 — Maxime Collignon, French archaeologist (died 1917)
December 5 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (died 1922)
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