1863 in archaeology

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1780s ^. 1790s in archaeology ^. 1800

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1863 in archaeology

Explorations

• Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.^[1]

Excavations

• Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
• William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.

Publications

• Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.^[2]
• Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.

Finds

• 20 April – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
• Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC(?), it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
• The Exaltation of the Flower found at Farsala in Thessaly by Léon Heuzey and Henri Daumet.
• Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.^[3]

Miscellaneous

• Anthropological Society of London formed

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1862 in archaeology
• 1864 in archaeology

References

1. Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 129. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
3. Uldum, Otto. "The Nydam Ships". NAVIS I. Retrieved 2011-09-23.