1876 in archaeology

none 1876 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1876. Excavations Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann.Mykena 1878 Heinrich Schliemann Finds The "Mask of Agamemnon" found at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann.The Mask of Agamemnon: An Example of Electroformed Reproduction of Artworks Made by E. Gilliéron in the Early Twentieth Century https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/features/2011/mask-of-agamemnon The Metropolitan Museum of Art 24 May 2017 Later in the year Schliemann supposedly telegraphs a Greek newspaper "I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon".Behind the Mask of Agamemnon - Archaeology Magazine Archive https://archive.archaeology.org/9907/etc/mask.html archive.archaeology.org 24 May 2017 live https://web.archive.org/web/20130317095640/http://archive.archaeology.org/9907/etc/mask.html 17 March 2013 June 29 - Robin Hood Cave Horse, a fragment of rib engraved with a horse's head, discovered by Rev. J. M. Mello at Creswell Crags in the north east midlands of England, the only piece of Upper Paleolithic portable art showing an animal to be found in Britain.https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/h/horse_engraving_on_bone.aspx British Museum Horse engraving on bone Explore 2011 2024-06-24 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111016133100/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/h/horse_engraving_on_bone.aspx 2011-10-16 Wayback MachineAnn Sieveking A catalogue of palaeolithic art in the British Museum https://books.google.com/books?id=DtCfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA112 2011-10-14 1987 British Museum London 978-0-7141-1376-0 112–https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237538691 Discovery, nature and preliminary thoughts about Britain's first cave art P. B. Pettitt researchgate.net 2003 2018-01-02 October - Excavations by John Clayton in Coventina's Well at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall yield at least 13,400 Roman coins.Lindsay Bruce Allason-Jones McKay Coventina's Well: a shrine on Hadrian's Wall Hexham Trustees of the Clayton Collection 1985 0-946897-05-0 Lindsay Allason-Jones Publications Amelia Edwards - A Thousand Miles up the Nile.Thousand miles nile - Egyptology http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/archaeology/egyptology/thousand-miles-nile?format=PB&isbn=9781108020909#kvT1aCmCtcwjdZsB.97 Cambridge University Press 24 May 2017 en Births March 19 - John Marshall, English Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (died 1958).http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=138912 Sir John Hubert Marshall (Biographical details) britishmuseum.org 24 May 2017 May 5 - John Garstang, English archaeologist of the Near East (died 1956).https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Garstang John Garstang Britannica.com 24 May 2017 Deaths August 19 - George Smith, English Assyriologist (born 1840)Smith, George 1840-1876 http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no92032602/ worldcat.org 16 May 2017 See also Ancient Egypt / Egyptology References Category:Archaeology by year Category:1870s in archaeology Archaeology