1802 in archaeology explained

The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Publications

• Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac.
• Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie.

Other events

• The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display.
• Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform.

Births

• Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Fagan. Brian. From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing. 2006 . Oxford University Press, USA. 9780195160918. 287. en. registration.