1680s in archaeology
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The decade of the 1680s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
- 1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma.[1]
Finds
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)