Désiré Charnay makes the first photographs of the Maya ruins of Palenque
Stone tools in a cave at Brixham in England.
Hoard of Neolithic flint tools and weapons at York in England.
Ancient Greek sculpture of the Lion of Knidos found by Richard Popplewell Pullan near modern-day Datça, Turkey.
Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu at Dayr al-Bahri by François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette.
Boston Green Head at the Serapeum of Saqqara (presumed year).
December 31 - Roman coin hoard at Weston Underwood found in Buckinghamshire, England.
Approximate date - Mary Brodrick, English Egyptologist (died 1933)
February 6 - Georg Friedrich Creuzer, German Greek philologist and archaeologist (born 1771)
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