1835 in archaeology
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The year 1835 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
- Henry Rawlinson begins study and decipherment from the cuneiform of the Behistun Inscription.
- Howard Vyse first visits Egypt.[1]
Finds
- Mars of Todi in Todi, Italy.
- Nike Fixing her Sandal in Athens, Greece
Publications
- Juan Galindo's description of the Maya site of Copán.
- John Gardner Wilkinson - Topography of Thebes, and general view of Egypt.
Births
- 25 March - Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (died 1917).
- 22 June - Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (d. 1910).
- 21 July - Robert Munro, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1920).
Deaths
- 26 July - Caspar Reuvens, founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and the world's first professor of archaeology, dies at Rotterdam (b. 1793).