1790s in archaeology

none 1790 archaeology science The decade of the 1790s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations 1799: Napoleon in Egypt: French troops occupy Egyptian territory. Tomb KV20 in the Valley of the Kings is located. Excavations 1794–96: Roman tessellated pavements found at Frampton, Dorset, depicting one of the earliest known Christian symbols in England.Historic England research records Frampton Historic England Heritage Gateway https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=453174&resourceID=19191 2024-07-01 2012 1796: The Roman fort, vicus, bridge abutments and associated remains of Hadrian's Wall are excavated at Chesters, in England. 1798: The first recorded excavations at Stonehenge are made by William Cunnington and Richard Colt Hoare. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. Finds 1790 Pediment of the Roman temple at Bath, England, is discovered during work near the Roman Baths.Key objects of the collection The Roman Baths 24 October 2014 http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/key-objects-collection Roman Baths Bath 2016-07-27 Townley Discobolus and Lansdowne Heracles are discovered at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy. Bones presumed to be those of English poet John Milton (d. 1674) are disinterred during repairs to the church of St Giles-without-Cripplegate in London.Allen Walker Read The Disinterment of Milton's Remains Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 45 1930 4 1050–68 10.2307/457826 457826 163450400 December 17 - The late post-classic Mexica Aztec sun stone is discovered during repairs to Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.History Today December 2018 68 12 23 1796: Summer - Ribchester Hoard and helmet found in Lancashire, England. 1797: July 17 - The tomb of John, King of England (d. 1216), is rediscovered at Worcester Cathedral in front of the altar.Account about opening King John's tomb https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/account-about-opening-king-johns-tomb The British Library 8 June 2017 en 1799: July 15 - At the town of Rosetta (Rashid), a harbor on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, French troops find the Rosetta Stone, inscribed with parallel texts in Greek, Egyptian demotic and hieroglyphs (translated in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion). Publications 1793: James Douglas - Nenia Britannica, or, A Sepulchral History of Great Britain, from the earliest period to its general conversion to Christianity (published complete), the first account of the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon site (in Kent)Leslie Webster Leslie E. Webster Anglo-Saxon England AD 400–1100 Longworth, Ian Cherry, John Archaeology in Britain since 1945 London British Museum 1986 0-7141-2035-9 121 registration https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780714120355/page/121 with artefacts systematically described and illustrated.Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academy of Arts Making History: Antiquarians in Britain 1707-2007 London 2007 99 1797: James Hutton, a Scotsman who has been called "the Father of Geology," publishes theories describing the earth as destroying and renewing itself in a never-ending cycle. 1799: Vice President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, writing in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4, describes the bones of Megalonyx jeffersonii, an extinct ground sloth. Other events 1797: January 3 - Three of the stones making up Stonehenge fall due to heavy frosts. 1798: December 10 - Some antiquities being shipped to England by Sir William Hamilton are lost in the wreck of HMS Colossus. Births 1790: December 22 - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (d. 1832)BBC - History - Jean-François Champollion https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/champollion_jean.shtml BBC 17 May 2017 1792: June 10 - John Clayton, English antiquarian (d. 1890) 1793: January 22 - Caspar Reuvens, founder of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities), first professor of archaeology (d. 1835) 1794: July 7 - Frances Stackhouse Acton, née Knight, English botanist, archaeologist, artist and writer (d. 1881) 1796: November 27 - John MacEnery, Irish-born priest and pioneer archaeologist (d. 1841) 1797: October 5 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)Bierbrier Morris L. Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt 2008 Scarecrow Press 9780810862500 257 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wp9u7bmexz8C en 1798: Approximate date - Kyriakos Pittakis, Greek archaeologist (d. 1863) 1799: December 12 (23) - Karl Bryullov, Russian painter of The Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852) Deaths 1795: April 30 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)Jean-Jacques Barthelemy - French archaeologist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Barthelemy Encyclopedia Britannica 17 May 2017 en References Archaeology timeline 1790s 1780s in archaeology 1800 in archaeology Category:Archaeology by decade Category:18th century in archaeology Archaeology