1867 in archaeology

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1867 in archaeology

Explorations

Ruins of Great Zimbabwe rediscovered by Adam Renders.

Excavations

Oluf Rygh excavates the Tune ship in Norway.
Excavations at Bibracte begun by Gabriel Bulliot (continue to 1907).
September - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox undertakes his first excavation, at Cissbury Ring hill fort in West Sussex.

Finds

George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC., the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.^[1]

Publications

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

13 May - Thomas Gann, Anglo Irish explorer and archaeologist of the Maya civilization (d. 1938)

Deaths

August 3 - August Böckh, German classical scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)

See also

References

↑ Rawlinson, Henry C. (18 May 1867). "The Assyrian Canon Verified by the Record of a Solar Eclipse, B.C. 763". The Athenaeum (London) (2064): 660–1.

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