1845 in archaeology

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The year 1845 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis begin one of the first American scientific archaeological studies, exploring the remains of the prehistoric mound builders of Ohio, leading to the publication of the landmark Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley three years later.

Austen Henry Layard begins excavating the Assyrian sites of Nimrud and Nineveh, lasting until 1851.
L. K. Ivanovsky begins excavating burial mounds near Novgorod, ending in 1892.
Early excavation work at Ephesus

Austen Henry Layard finds first group of Nimrud ivories.
Charles Lyell in Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), reports that sometime around 1845 when the Rhine was blasted near Bingen am Rhein to deepen and remove rocks, Roman-era iron weapons were dredged from the river bed.
The existence of the Lycurgus cup, a piece of glassware demonstrating 4th century AD Roman technology, is reported.
Viking-age hoard of English coins dating to around 927 found near Bangor Cathedral in Wales