1875 in archaeology

none 1875 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1875. Excavations Ernst Curtius begins excavations at Olympia, Greece which continue until 1881.https://www.britannica.com/place/Olympia-ancient-site-Greece Olympia britannica.com 24 May 2017 Archaeological survey of Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer, British India, begins. Lovatelli urn found during Edoardo Brizio excavation of the columbarium of the Statilia on the Esquiline in Rome Publications William Collings Lukis: A Guide to the Principal Chambered Barrows and other Pre-historic Monuments in the Islands of the Morbihan, the communes of Locmariaker, Carnac, Plouharnel and Erdeven, and the peninsulas of Quiberon and Rhuis, Brittany. On the class of rude stone monuments which are commonly called in England cromlechs, and in France dolmens, and are here shown to have been the sepulchral chambers of once-existing mounds. Births October 21 – Sir Guy Francis Laking, English art historian, keeper of the London Museum (d. 1919) November 19 – Hiram Bingham III, American explorer of South America (d. 1933) December 13 – Arthur Callender, English engineer and archaeologist, assistant to Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (d. 1936) Deaths April 30 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, artist and explorer (b. 1766?) October 29 – John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (b. 1797)Bierbrier Morris L. Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt 2008 Scarecrow Press 9780810862500 257 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wp9u7bmexz8C en See also Ancient Egypt / Egyptology References Category:Archaeology by year Category:1870s in archaeology Archaeology