1780s in archaeology explained

1770s ^. 1780s in archaeology ^. 1790s
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The decade of the 1780s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

1786: Antonio Bernasconi and Colonel Antonio del Rio examine the ruins of Palenque, making the first map of the site and some crude excavations.

1786: Excavation of a Roman villa near Warminster in England by antiquarian Catherine Downes.^[1]
1788: Excavations of Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) in England by civil engineer Thomas Telford.
Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

1780
- Tomb of the Scipios rediscovered in Rome.^[2]
- Discobolus Palombara discovered in Rome.
1781: Roman coin hoards found in England near Eye, Suffolk (approximate date) and Stanmore, near London.
1782: Tomb of Catherine Parr (d. 1548) rediscovered in Sudeley Castle, England.
1786: Gold thumb ring of Senicianus discovered near Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) in England.
1789: The Stony Stratford Hoard uncovered in England.
Xagħra Stone Circle first discovered in Malta.

1784: July 25 - Richard William Howard Vyse, English soldier, anthropologist and Egyptologist (d. 1853).
1785: November 24 - Philipp August Böckh, German classical scholar and antiquarian (d. 1867).
1786: December 11 - William John Bankes, English Member of Parliament, explorer and Egyptologist (d. 1855).^[3]
1787: March 28 - Claudius James Rich, English traveller and scholar (d. 1820).
1788: September 10 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1788: December 29 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (d. 1865).

1780: March 14 - Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre, Spanish-born military engineer and pioneer Classical archaeologst (b. 1702)
1788: February 2 - James "Athenian" Stuart, Scottish architect and archaeologist (b. 1713)^[4]