WikiMili
1780s in archaeology
Last updated
March 09, 2025
1770s
.
1780s in archaeology
.
1790s
Other
topics:
Rail transport
Overview of the events of the 1780s in archaeology
List of years in archaeology
(
table
)
…
1770
1771
1772
1773
1774
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789
1790
…
In science
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
1783
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
v
t
e
The decade of the
1780s in archaeology
involved some significant events.
Contents
Explorations
Excavations
Finds
Publications
Other events
Births
Deaths
References
Explorations
Detail of a
relief
from a Mayan ruin at
Palenque
drawn by
Ricardo Almendáriz
at the time of its original excavation in 1787
1786: Antonio Bernasconi and Colonel Antonio del Rio examine the ruins of
Palenque
, making the first map of the site and some crude excavations.
Excavations
1786: Excavation of a Roman villa near
Warminster
in England by antiquarian
Catherine Downes
.
[
1
]
1788: Excavations of Roman city of
Viroconium Cornoviorum
(
Wroxeter
) in England by civil engineer
Thomas Telford
.
Formal excavations continue at
Pompeii
.
Finds
1780
Tomb of the Scipios
rediscovered in
Rome
.
[
2
]
Discobolus Palombara
discovered in Rome.
1781: Roman coin hoards found in England near
Eye, Suffolk
(approximate date) and
Stanmore
, near London.
1782: Tomb of
Katherine Parr
(d. 1548) rediscovered in
Sudeley Castle
,
England
.
[
3
]
1786: Gold thumb ring of Senicianus discovered near
Calleva Atrebatum
(
Silchester
) in England.
1789:
The Stony Stratford Hoard
uncovered in England.
Xagħra Stone Circle
first discovered in
Malta
.
Publications
1785: Engineer Diego Ruiz visits and publishes the first account of
El Tajín
.
1789:
Saggio di lingua Etrusca
by
Luigi Lanzi
.
Other events
1780: December 18 – The
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
is formed.
1783: The
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
is
incorporated
.
Births
1784: July 25 –
Richard William Howard Vyse
, English soldier,
anthropologist
and Egyptologist (d.
1853
).
1785: November 24 –
Philipp August Böckh
,
German
classical scholar
and
antiquarian
(d.
1867
).
1786: December 11 –
William John Bankes
, English Member of Parliament, explorer and Egyptologist (d.
1855
).
[
4
]
1787: March 28 –
Claudius James Rich
, English traveller and scholar (d.
1820
).
1788: September 10 –
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
,
French
archaeologist
(d.
1868
)
1788: December 29 –
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
,
Danish
archaeologist (d.
1865
).
Deaths
1780: March 14 –
Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre
, Spanish-born military engineer and pioneer Classical archaeologist (b.
1702
)
1788: February 2 –
James "Athenian" Stuart
, Scottish architect and archaeologist (b.
1713
)
[
5
]
References
↑
Hingley, Richard (2008).
The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586–1906: A Colony So Fertile
. Oxford University Press. p.
15.
ISBN
978-0-19-923702-9
.
↑
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
(1897).
The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: a Companion Book for Students and Travelers
. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. pp.
321
–7.
↑
Dent, Emma (1877).
Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley
. London: J. Murray,
p. 315.
↑
"Bankes, William John (1786-1855), of Kingston Hall, Dorset"
.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org
. Retrieved
18 May
2017
.
↑
"James 'Athenian' Stuart, 1713-1788"
.
Telegraph.co.uk
. Retrieved
8 June
2017
.
Preceded
by
1770s in archaeology
Archaeology timeline
1780s
Succeeded
by
1790s in archaeology
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article
Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0
license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.