1875 in archaeology

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The year 1875 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

Ernst Curtius begins excavations at Olympia, Greece which continue until 1881.^[1]
Archaeological survey of Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer, British India, begins.

Publications

William Collings Lukis -
- A Guide to the Principal Chambered Barrows and other Pre-historic Monuments in the Islands of the Morbihan, the communes of Locmariaker, Carnac, Plouharnel and Erdeven, and the peninsulas of Quiberon and Rhuis, Brittany.
- On the class of rude stone monuments which are commonly called in England cromlechs, and in France dolmens, and are here shown to have been the sepulchral chambers of once-existing mounds.

Births

October 21 - Sir Guy Francis Laking, English art historian, keeper of the London Museum (d. 1919)
November 19 - Hiram Bingham III, American explorer of South America (d. 1933)

Deaths

April 30 - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, artist and explorer (b. 1766?)
October 29 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (b. 1797)^[2]

See also

Ancient Egypt / Egyptology

References

↑ "Olympia". britannica.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
↑ Bierbrier, Morris L. (2008). Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Scarecrow Press. p. 257. ISBN 9780810862500.

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