1834 in archaeology

Last updated December 13, 2025

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1834.

Excavations

Excavations made at Meroë by Giuseppe Ferlini
Recovery of guns and other material from the wreck of HMS Royal George (1756) in the Solent by Charles Anthony Deane and his brother John begins

Explorations

Juan Galindo explores the Maya ruins of Copan
French scholar Charles Texier finds the first Hittite site but does not identify it as such^[1]^[2]

Miscellaneous

John Clayton begins to safeguard Hadrian's Wall

Births

April 30 - John Lubbock, English prehistorian (d. 1913)^[3]

References

↑ Erimtan, Can (2008). "Hittites, Ottomans and Turks: Ağaoğlu Ahmed Bey and the Kemalist Construction of Turkish Nationhood in Anatolia" . Anatolian Studies. 58: 141–171. doi:10.1017/S0066154600008711. JSTOR 20455417. S2CID 163040610. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22.
↑ Texier, Charles (1835). "Rapport lu, le 15 mai 1835, à l'Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres de l'Institut, sur un envoi fait par M. Texier, et contenant les dessins de bas-reliefs découverts par lui près du village de Bogaz-Keui, dans l'Asie mineure" [Report read on 15 May 1835 to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belle-lettres of the Institute, on a dispatch made by Mr. Texier and containing drawings of bas-reliefs discovered by him near the village of Bogaz-Keui in Asia Minor]. Journal des Savants (in French): 368–376. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
↑ Patton, Mark (2007). Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 9780754653219.

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[1] Erimtan, Can (2008). "Hittites, Ottomans and Turks: Ağaoğlu Ahmed Bey and the Kemalist Construction of Turkish Nationhood in Anatolia" . Anatolian Studies. 58: 141–171. doi:10.1017/S0066154600008711. JSTOR 20455417. S2CID 163040610. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22.

[2] Texier, Charles (1835). "Rapport lu, le 15 mai 1835, à l'Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres de l'Institut, sur un envoi fait par M. Texier, et contenant les dessins de bas-reliefs découverts par lui près du village de Bogaz-Keui, dans l'Asie mineure" [Report read on 15 May 1835 to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belle-lettres of the Institute, on a dispatch made by Mr. Texier and containing drawings of bas-reliefs discovered by him near the village of Bogaz-Keui in Asia Minor]. Journal des Savants (in French): 368–376. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2018-10-10.

[3] Patton, Mark (2007). Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 9780754653219.

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