Overview of the events of the 1790s in archaeology
The decade of the 1790s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
Finds
Publications
Other events
Births
- 1790: December 22 - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (d. 1832)[8]
- 1793: January 22 - Caspar Reuvens, founder of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities), first professor of archaeology (d. 1835)
- 1794: July 7 - Frances Stackhouse Acton, née Knight, English botanist, archaeologist, artist and writer (d. 1881)
- 1796: November 27 - John MacEnery, Irish-born priest and pioneer archaeologist (d. 1841)
- 1797: October 5 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)[9]
- 1798: Approximate date - Kyriakos Pittakis, Greek archaeologist (d. 1863)
- 1799: December 12 (23) - Karl Bryullov, Russian painter of The Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852)
Deaths
References
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- ^ "Key objects of the collection". Bath: Roman Baths. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
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- ^ History Today. 68 (12): 23. December 2018.
- ^ "Account about opening King John's tomb". The British Library. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ Webster, Leslie (1986). "Anglo-Saxon England AD 400–1100". In Longworth, Ian; Cherry, John (eds.). Archaeology in Britain since 1945. London: British Museum. p. 121. ISBN 0-7141-2035-9.
- ^ Royal Academy of Arts (2007). Making History: Antiquarians in Britain 1707-2007. London. p. 99.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "BBC - History - Jean-François Champollion". BBC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ Bierbrier, Morris L. (2008). Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Scarecrow Press. p. 257. ISBN 9780810862500.
- ^ "Jean-Jacques Barthelemy - French archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 May 2017.