The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Explorations
- 1764: First systematic mapping of the Antonine Wall by William Roy.
Excavations
- Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
- 1757: Rev. Bryan Faussett begins excavations at Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in Kent, England.
Finds
- 1761-1767: Carsten Niebuhr transcribes the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis.
- 1765: Nathaniel Davison discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davison's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Publications
- 1762: James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens.[1]
- 1764:
- Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art").
Other events
- 1764: French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using the inscriptions on the Cippi of Melqart from Malta.
Births
- 1760:
- January 6 - Richard Polwhele, Cornish antiquarian (d. 1838)
- June 8 - Karl Böttiger, German archaeologist (d. 1835)
- 1763:
- November 19 - Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic and archaeologist (d. 1808)[2]
- Samuel Lysons, English antiquarian (d. 1819)[3]
- 1766: March 16? - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (d. 1875)
- 1769:
- March 23 - William Smith, English geologist (d. 1839)[4]
- August 23 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (d. 1832)[5]
- September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian explorer and writer (d. 1859)
Deaths
- 1765:
- March 3 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian (b. 1689)
- September 5 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)[6]
- 1767: June 17 - Jean-Baptiste Greppo, French canon and archaeologist (b. 1712)
- 1768: June 8 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art critic and archaeologist (b. 1717)[7]
References
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