1887 in archaeology

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The year 1887 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

June–July - Carl Humann works at Hierapolis.

Finds

A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna uncovers a cache of over 300 cuneiform tablets containing diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaohs, now commonly known as the Amarna Letters.

Publications

William Ivison Macadam - "Notes on the Ancient Iron Industry of Scotland", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Augustus Pitt Rivers - Excavations in Cranborne Chase, vol. 1

Miscellaneous

The Reverend George Brown is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.

Births

January 27 - Carl Blegen, American archaeologist of Greece (d. 1971)
Neil Judd, American archaeologist (d. 1976)

Deaths

Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (b. 1800)

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