1863 in archaeology
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1863 in archaeology
Explorations
- Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.[1]
Excavations
- Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
- William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.
Publications
- Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.[2]
- The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd–1st centuries BC) is first published, by Francis William Newman in London.
- Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.
Finds
- April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
- The Exaltation of the Flower found at Farsala in Thessaly by Léon Heuzey and Henri Daumet.
- Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.[3]
- Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
- July 13 – Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (died 1963)
- Francis Joseph Bigger, Irish antiquarian (died 1926)
Deaths
- July 3 – Alexander Henry Rhind, Scottish Egyptologist (born 1833)
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See also
- List of years in archaeology
- 1862 in archaeology
- 1864 in archaeology
References
- Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 129. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
- Uldum, Otto. "The Nydam Ships". NAVIS I. Retrieved 2011-09-23.
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