1690s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

• 1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered near Athelney in England.
• 1697 - Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb discovered in Lebanon by Henry Maundrell.

Other events

• 1693 - John Aubrey completes his Monumenta Britannica, or, A miscellanie of British antiquities in manuscript.

Births

• 1690: February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, British antiquarian (died 1755)
• 1692: October 31 - Comte de Caylus (died 1765).
• 1696: Francis Drake (died 1771)

Deaths

• 1697: June - John Aubrey (born 1626)
• 1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini (born 1698)