1817 in archaeology

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The year 1817 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Events

• The Elgin Marbles go on display in the British Museum in London.

Explorations

• Giovanni Battista Belzoni travels extensively through Egypt, visiting Abu Simbel, Karnak and the Valley of the Kings, creating several excavation sites.
• Major Stephen H. Long commands an expedition exploring the southern part of Arkansas, as well as the Louisiana border of the Red River; he also explores the Wisconsin River to its headwaters and the Mississippi River to the Falls of Saint Anthony.

Excavations

• June - The Stupa Excavation is begun.
• October - The KV16 burial site of Ramesses I in the East Valley of the Kings is discovered and excavated by Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
• Near Cairo, the Great Sphinx of Giza is excavated to chest level by Giovanni Battista Caviglia.
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni clears the Great Temple of Abu Simbel of sand.
• The tophet in Carthage is first excavated; since then, hundreds of urns and stelae (engraved stones) have been recovered.

Finds

• January 1 - Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island.
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni finds the tomb of Seti I.
• October 9 - The KV21 burial site in the Valley of the Kings is discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
• October 10 - The KV16 burial site of Ramesses I in the East Valley of the Kings is discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
• November 22 - Frédéric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.

Births

• March 5 - Austen Henry Layard, French-born British archaeologist of Iran (d. 1894)

Deaths

• November 5 - Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German archaeologist of Greece (b. 1774)