1690s in archaeology

The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered at North Petherton in Somerset, England.
1697 - Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb discovered in Lebanon by Henry Maundrell.

Events

1693 - John Aubrey completes his ' in manuscript.

1694 - Maltese canon Ignazio di Costanzo reports in a letter that the Cippi of Melqart bear an inscription in the Phoenician alphabet.

Births

1690: February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, English antiquarian (d. 1755)

1692: October 31 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)

1696: Francis Drake, English antiquary (d. 1771)

Deaths

1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary (b. 1626)

1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, Italian archaeologist (b. 1633)

References