1863 in archaeology explained

1780s ^. 1790s in archaeology ^. 1800
Other events: 1790s ^. Archaeology timeline

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1863.

Explorations

• Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.^[1]

Excavations

• Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
• William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.

Publications

• Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.^[2]
• The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd - 1st centuries BC) is first published, by Francis William Newman in London.
• Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.

Finds

• April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
• April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
• Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.^[3]
• Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.

Miscellaneous

• Anthropological Society of London formed

Births

• July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German Assyriologist (died 1913)
• July 13 – Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (died 1963)
• Francis Joseph Bigger, Irish antiquarian (died 1926)

Deaths

• July 3 – Alexander Henry Rhind, Scottish Egyptologist (born 1833)
• – Kyriakos Pittakis, Greek archaeologist (born c. 1798)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1862 in archaeology
• 1864 in archaeology

Notes and References

1. W. J.. Harrison. Christy, Henry (1810–1865). 2004. 2011-05-05. 10.1093/ref:odnb/5375.
2. Book: Boylan, Henry. 1998. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. 3rd. 129. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan. 0-7171-2945-4.
3. Web site: Otto. Uldum. The Nydam Ships. NAVIS I. 2011-09-23. 2011-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723013515/http://www2.rgzm.de/Navis/Ships/Ship007/Ship007Engl.htm. dead.