1850 in archaeology

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1850 in archaeology

Excavations

• First excavations at Uruk by William Kennett Loftus (continues to 1854).

Finds

• Skara Brae revealed by weather

Births

• Alfred Maudslay, explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization
• Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1849 in archaeology
• 1851 in archaeology