Sir Alexander Cunningham examines and describes the ruins in Harrappa
Hormuzd Rassam excavates the clay tablets which will be deciphered as Epic of Gilgamesh
3 June William Matthew Flinders Petrie (died. 1942), Egyptologist
26 December Wilhelm Dörpfeld (died. 1940), archaeologist of Troy
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