1802 in archaeology

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The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

Explorations

Publications

• Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac.
• Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie.

Other events

• The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display.
• Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform.

Births

• Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (died 1839).

Deaths