1790s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1790s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

1796: The Roman fort, vicus, bridge abutments and associated remains of Hadrian's Wall are excavated at Chesters, in England.
1798: The first recorded excavations at Stonehenge are made by William Cunnington and Richard Colt Hoare.
Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

1796 (Summer): Ribchester Hoard and helmet found in Lancashire.
1797: The tomb of John, King of England is rediscovered at Worcester Cathedral in front of the altar.
1799: At the town of Rosetta (Rashid), a harbor on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, French troops find the Rosetta Stone, inscribed with Greek/demotic/hieroglyphs (translated in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion).

1793: James Douglas - Nenia Britannica, the first account of the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon site (in Kent).^[1]
1797: James Hutton, a Scotsman who has been called "the Father of Geology," publishes theories describing the earth as destroying and renewing itself in a never-ending cycle.
1799: Vice President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, writing in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4, describes the bones of Megalonyx jeffersonii, an extinct ground sloth.

1797: January 3 - Three of the stones making up Stonehenge fall due to heavy frosts.
1798: December 10 - Some antiquities being shipped to England by Sir William Hamilton are lost in the wreck of HMS Colossus.

1790: December 23 - Jean-François Champollion (d. 1832), decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs
1793: January 22 - Caspar Reuvens (d. 1835), founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, first professor of archaeology
1796: date unknown - John MacEnery, priest and early archaeologist (d. 1841)
1797: October 5 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)
1799: December 12 (23) - Karl Brullov, author of Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852)

^ Webster, Leslie (1986). "Anglo-Saxon England AD 400–1100". In Longworth, Ian & Cherry, John (ed). Archaeology in Britain since 1945. London: British Museum. p. 121. ISBN 0-7141-2035-9.

Preceded by 1780s in archaeology	Archaeology timeline 1790s	Succeeded by 1800 in archaeology