1680s in archaeology explained

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The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma.^[1]

Publications

• 1685: Jacob Spon - Miscellanea eruditae antiquitatis

Events

• 1683: June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens in Oxford. The Rev. Robert Huntington donates the limestone false door stele of Shery from Saqqara (Fourth Dynasty of Egypt), one of the first large Middle Eastern sculptures seen in Western Europe.^[2]
• 1687: An explosion destroys part of the Parthenon.^[3]

Births

• 1685: approximate date - John Horsley, English archaeologist (d. 1732)
• 1687: November 7 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian (d. 1765)

Deaths

• 1680: November 28 - Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (b. 1602)^[4]
• 1689: November 26 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. 1635)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The largest Hunebed. HunebedCentrum. 2012. 2014-11-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20141101235256/http://www.hunebedcentrum.eu/en/exhibits/the-largest-hunebed/. 2014-11-01. dead.
2. Ashmolean Museum AN1836.479.
3. Web site: Parthenon. britannica.com. 15 June 2017.
4. Web site: Athanasius Kircher. Yale University Library. 20 June 2017.