1660s in archaeology

none 1660 archaeology science The decade of the 1660s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Excavations Finds 1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have been constructed by the Emperor Constantine on the site of Saint Eustace's vision (later reconstructed as the Santuario della Mentorella). 1667: The Capuan bust of Hannibal is found in Capua, Italy.Theodore Ayrault Dodge Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1896 1669: One of a pair of gold sun-discs from ca. 2500–2150 BCE is found at Ballyshannon in Ireland.Camden's Britannia. 1695 edn.Ballyshannon 'Sun Disc' Ashmolean Museum Oxford https://www.ashmolean.org/ballyshanon-sun-disc-0 2022-10-29 Events 1667: Henry Howard donates the first of the Arundel marbles to the University of Oxford (displayed in Ashmolean Museum).The Discovery Service http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/dbc6e85a-cb37-4ab0-9f69-efd32aca6533 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk 4 June 2017 Births 1690: Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary (d. 1709)s-LHUY-EDW-1660 Lhuyd, Edward 20 June 2017 Deaths 1661: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (b. c.1600) References Archaeology timeline 1660s 1650s in archaeology 1670s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by decade Category:17th century in archaeology Archaeology