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1810 in archaeology
The year
1810 in archaeology
involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
Colosseum
,
Rome
: The arena substructure is partly excavated during 1810-1814.
Stonehenge
,
Wiltshire
, England: Second excavations by
William Cunnington
and
Richard Colt Hoare
.
Publications
Alexander von Humboldt
publishes illustrated accounts of
Pre-Columbian
ruins of
Mesoamerica
including
Mitla
and
Xochicalco
.
Richard Colt Hoare
begins publication of
The Ancient History of Wiltshire
in England.
Births
11 April:
Henry Rawlinson
,
English
Assyriologist
(d.
1895
).
26 July:
Henry Christy
, English
ethnologist
,
archaeologist
and sponsor (d.
1865
).
Deaths
30 March:
Luigi Lanzi
,
Italian
archaeologist (b
1732
).
31 December:
William Cunnington
, English
antiquarian
(b.
1754
).
See also
Roman Forum
- excavations
References