1818 in archaeology
The year 1818 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Events
- June 13 - Caspar Reuvens is appointed as the world's first professor of archaeology, at Leiden University in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Explorations
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni explores the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza.[1]
Finds
- Ancient temple at Sanchi.
- 1818 or 1819 - Prajnaparamita of Java.
Publications
- Juan Ramis publishes Antigüedades célticas de la isla de Menorca ("Celtic Antiquities of the Island of Menorca") in Mahón, the first book in the Spanish language entirely devoted to prehistory.
See also
References
- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1820). Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia. London.
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