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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 (
styca
s) 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