1802 in archaeology
The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Excavations
Explorations
Publications
- Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac.
- Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie.
Other events
- The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display.
- Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform.
Births
- Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).[1]
Deaths
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gollark: The only message on 19 December is> 6K+ already?!?which seems pretty innocuous, so I'm assuming you're talking about the 20 December one about the (not implemented yet) restricted thing channels and will chalk this down to... time zones, or something.I'd kind of expect you to have said something in the intervening four months if this was a problem for you.
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References
- Fagan, Brian. From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 287. ISBN 9780195160918.
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