1740s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1740s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Explorations
2 Excavations
3 Finds
4 Publications
5 Other events
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 See also
9 References

Explorations

Excavations

1748: Jeong Ji-hae, a Yangban and father of the Governor of Jinju, excavates six Goryeo Dynasty (AD 918-1392) tombs of individuals whom Jeong thought may have been his ancestors, and thus becomes the first archaeologist in Korea.

Finds

1748: Pompeii rediscovered as the result of formal excavations by Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.^[1]

Publications

1740:
- Nicholas Mahudel's Les Monumens les plus anciens de l'industrie des hommes, des Arts et reconnus dans les pierres de Foudres, by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.^[2]
- William Stukeley's description of Stonehenge.
1744: First volume of Le Antichità di Ercolano, account of discoveries at Herculaneum.

Other events

1743: The Papenbroek Collection is bequeathed to Leiden University, comprising about 150 antiquities. It is put on public display and published in 1746, but poorly cared for until it gets an official curator, half a century later.^[3]

Births

1743: November 23 - Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, French antiquary (d. 1800)

Deaths

1747: March 7 - Nicholas Mahudel, French antiquary (b. 1704)

See also

Archaeology timeline

References

^ Ozgenel, Lalo, A Tale of Two Cities: In Search of Ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, METU JFA 2008/1 (25:1), p1-25
^ Hamy, M. E. T. (mars–avril 1906). "Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de l'archéologie préhistorique". Revue archéologique, 4e Série 7: 239–259.
^ Halbertsma, R. B. (2003). Scholars, Travellers, and Trade: The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840. London: Routledge. p. 20. ISBN 0415276306.

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