1730s in archaeology
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The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Explorations
[edit] Excavations
- Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
[edit] Finds
- 1738: Herculaneum is rediscovered, buried in volcanic ash near Pompeii.
[edit] Publications
- 1734: Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, by Nicholas Mahudel.
[edit] Other events
[edit] Births
- 1730: September 16 - William Hamilton, Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist (died 1803)
- 1732: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist (died 1810)
- 1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (died 1806)
