1760s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Explorations
2 Excavations
3 Finds
4 Publications
5 Other events
6 Births
7 Deaths

Explorations

1764: First systematic mapping of the Antonine Wall by William Roy.

Excavations

Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

Finds

1761 - 1767: Carsten Niebuhr transcribes the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis.
1765, Nathaniel Davison discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davison's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Publications

1762: James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens.
1764: Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.

Other events

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

Deaths

1765: March 3 - William Stukeley, antiquarian (born 1689)

Preceded by 1750s in archaeology	Archaeology timeline 1760s	Succeeded by 1770s in archaeology