1740s in archaeology

none 1740 archaeology science The decade of the 1740s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Excavations 1748: Jeong Ji-hae, a Yangban and father of the Governor of Jinju, excavates six Goryeo Dynasty (AD 918-1392) tombs of individuals whom Jeong thought may have been his ancestors, and thus becomes the first archaeologist in Korea. Finds 1743: The Barkway hoard of Roman objects is found in Hertfordshire, England.Walters Henry Beauchamp Smith Reginald Allender 1921 Catalogue of the Silver Plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum British Museum London 59 1747: The mummified remains known as "Amcotts Moor Woman", a bog body, is unearthed from a peat bog in Lincolnshire, England.Turner, R. C. Rhodes, M. 1992 A Bog Body and its Shoes from Amcotts, Lincolnshire The Antiquaries Journal 72 1–13 UK 10.1017/S0003581500071183 1747: Substantial remains of the Temple of Apollo are discovered in Mdina, Malta. Many of the ruins are dispersed among private collections.Caruana Antonio Annetto Antonio Annetto Caruana Report on the Phoenician and Roman antiquities in the group of the islands of Malta 1882 Government Printing Office Malta 89 https://books.google.com/books?id=vUdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA89 1747: Capheaton Treasure, a Roman silver hoard, is found in Northumberland, England.https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?place=6318&plaA=6318-3-1 British Museum London Capheaton 2019-05-28 Some of it is melted down. 1748: Pompeii rediscovered as the result of formal excavations by Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.Ozgenel, Lalo, A Tale of Two Cities: In Search of Ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum https://web.archive.org/web/20110930032022/http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2008/cilt25/sayi_1/1-25.pdf 2011-09-30 , METU JFA 2008/1 (25:1), p1-25 1749: Stabiae rediscovered by Joaquin de Alcubierre. thumb|200px|right|Elaborate oil lamp from Herculaneum, as depicted in Le Antichità di Ercolano (1744). Publications 1740: Nicholas Mahudel's Les Monumens les plus anciens de l'industrie des hommes, des Arts et reconnus dans les pierres de Foudres, by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.Hamy M. E. T. March–April 1906 Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de l'archéologie préhistorique Revue Archéologique 4e série 7 239–259 William Stukeley's description of Stonehenge. 1744: First volume of Le Antichità di Ercolano, account of discoveries at Herculaneum. Other events 1743: The Papenbroek Collection is bequeathed to Leiden University, comprising about 150 antiquities. It is put on public display and published in 1746, but poorly cared for until it gets an official curator, half a century later.Halbertsma R. B. 2003 Scholars, Travellers, and Trade: The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840 https://archive.org/details/scholarstravelle00halb limited London Routledge 0-415-27630-6 20 Births 1743: November 23 - Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, French antiquary (d. 1800) Deaths 1747: March 7 - Nicholas Mahudel, French antiquary (b. 1704) See also Archaeology timeline References Archaeology timeline 1740s 1730s in archaeology 1750s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by decade Category:18th century in archaeology Archaeology