1832 in archaeology

Explorations

• May - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck begins a year's stay at the Maya ruins of Palenque.

Finds

• 15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins (stycas) in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham Abbey in the north of England.
• Hermes of Andros in Andros, Greece.

Publications

• Ippolito Rosellini, Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia begins publication.

Births

• 29 July - Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (d. 1904)
• 1 November - Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (d. 1898)

Deaths

• 4 March - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (b. 1790)
• 13 May - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1769)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1831 in archaeology
• 1833 in archaeology

References