1710s in archaeology

none 1710 archaeology science The decade of the 1710s in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. Finds 1710: A few remains of the Temple of Apollo are discovered in Mdina, Malta. Most of the marble blocks were later sculpted into decorative elements for new buildings.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 1713: Gold aureus coins found in Transylvania provide the only known evidence for Roman usurper Sponsianus.Ghosh Pallab Pallab Ghosh 2022-11-24 Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63636641 2022-11-24 1719: December 2 - Workers in Falun Mine, Sweden, find the apparently petrified body of "Fet-Mats" Israelsson (d. 1677), in a flooded part of the copper workings. Publications 1717: Michele Mercati's Metallotheca is published, 124 years after his death.Mercati, Michele 1541-1593 http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-122992/ worldcat.org 8 June 2017 1719: Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey by Richard Rawlinson. Births 1712: 17 May - Jean-Baptiste Greppo, French canon and archaeologist (d. 1767) 1713: James 'Athenian' Stuart, Scottish archaeologist and architect (d. 1788)James 'Athenian' Stuart, 1713-1788 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3675384/James-Athenian-Stuart-1713-1788.html Telegraph.co.uk 8 June 2017 en 1716: January 20 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1795)Jean-Jacques Barthelemy - French archaeologist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Barthelemy Encyclopedia Britannica 17 May 2017 en 1717: December 9 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art critic and archaeologist (d. 1768)Johann Winckelmann - German art historian https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Joachim-Winckelmann Encyclopedia Britannica 10 June 2017 en Deaths 1715: February 17 - Antoine Galland, French orientalist (b. 1646)LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82127356.html id.loc.gov 17 May 2017 Archaeology timeline 1710s 1700s in archaeology 1720s in archaeology References Category:Archaeology by decade Category:18th century in archaeology Archaeology