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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1863 .

Explorations

Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.^[1]

Excavations

Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.

Publications

Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.^[2]
The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd–1st centuries BC) is first published, by Francis William Newman in London.
Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.

Finds

April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.^[3]
Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Anthropological Society of London formed

Births

July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German Assyriologist (died 1913)
July 13 – Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (died 1963)
Francis Joseph Bigger, Irish antiquarian (died 1926)

Deaths

July 3 – Alexander Henry Rhind, Scottish Egyptologist (born 1833)
November 4 [ O.S. October 23] – Kyriakos Pittakis, Greek archaeologist (born c. 1798)

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References

↑ Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375 . Retrieved 2011-05-05.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 129. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
↑ Uldum, Otto. "The Nydam Ships". NAVIS I. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

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[1] Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375 . Retrieved 2011-05-05.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 129. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.

[3] Uldum, Otto. "The Nydam Ships". NAVIS I. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-09-23.

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