1690s in archaeology

The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

• 1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered at North Petherton in Somerset, England.^[1]
• 1697 - Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb discovered in Lebanon by Henry Maundrell.

Events

• 1693 - John Aubrey completes his Monumenta Britannica, or, A miscellanie of British antiquities in manuscript.
• 1694 - Maltese canon Ignazio di Costanzo reports in a letter that the Cippi of Melqart bear an inscription in the Phoenician alphabet.

Births

• 1690: February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, English antiquarian (d. 1755)
• 1692: October 31 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)^[2]
• 1696: Francis Drake, English antiquary (d. 1771)^[3]

Deaths

• 1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary (b. 1626)^[4]
• 1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, Italian archaeologist (b. 1633)^[5]