1760s in archaeology

1760s in archaeology

The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

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Excavations

* Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

Finds

* 1765, Nathaniel Davidson discovers a stress-relieving chamber (Davidson's chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Publications

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Other events

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Births

* 1760: Karl Böttiger, German archaeologist (died 1835).
* 1763: November 19 - Karl Ludwig Fernow (died 1808).
* 1766: June 13 - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (died 1875).
* 1769: March 23 - William Smith (geologist)
* 1769: August 23 - Georges Cuvier, naturalist, zoologist, paleontologist
* 1769: September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, explorer, writer

Deaths

* 1765: March 3 - William Stukeley, antiquarian (born 1689)


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