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1850 in archaeology

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1850 in archaeology

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Excavations

  • First excavations at Uruk by William Kennett Loftus (continues to 1854).
  • Finds

  • Skara Brae revealed by weather.
  • Tara Brooch (c.700 AD) found near Laytown, County Meath, Ireland.
  • Births

  • Alfred Maudslay, explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization
  • Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia
  • References

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