1760s in archaeology
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The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Explorations
[edit] Excavations
- Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
[edit] Finds
- 1765, Nathaniel Davidson discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davidson's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
[edit] Publications
[edit] Other events
[edit] Births
- 1760: Karl Böttiger, German archaeologist (died 1835).
- 1763: November 19 - Karl Ludwig Fernow (died 1808).
- 1766: June 13 - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (died 1875).
- 1769: March 23 - William Smith (geologist)
- 1769: August 23 - Georges Cuvier, naturalist, zoologist, paleontologist
- 1769: September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, explorer, writer
[edit] Deaths
- 1765: March 3 - William Stukeley, antiquarian (born 1689)
