1876 in archaeology

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The year 1876 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann.^[1]

Finds

The "Mask of Agamemnon" found at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann. Later in the year Schliemann supposedly telegraphs a Greek newspaper "I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon".
October - Excavations by John Clayton in Coventina's Well at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall yield at least 13,400 Roman coins.^[2]

Publications

Amelia Edwards - A Thousand Miles up the Nile.

Births

March 19 - John Marshall, English Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (died 1958).
May 5 - John Garstang, English archaeologist of the Near East (died 1956).

Deaths

August 19 - George Smith, English Assyriologist (born 1840)

References

↑ Schliemann, Heinrich (1878). Mykena.
↑ Allason-Jones, Lindsay; McKay, Bruce (1985). Coventina's Well: a shrine on Hadrian's Wall. Hexham: Trustees of the Clayton Collection. ISBN 0-946897-05-0.

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