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1867 in archaeology
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[edit] Explorations
- Ruins of Great Zimbabwe rediscovered by Adam Renders.
[edit] Excavations
- Oluf Rygh excavates the Tune ship in Norway.
- Excavations at Bibracte begun by Gabriel Bulliot (continue to 1907).
- September - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox undertakes his first excavation, at Cissbury Ring hill fort in West Sussex.
[edit] Finds
- George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC., the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.[1]
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[edit] Miscellaneous
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[edit] Births
- 13 May - Thomas Gann, Anglo Irish explorer and archaeologist of the Maya civilization (d. 1938)
[edit] Deaths
- August 3 - August Böckh, German classical scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Rawlinson, Henry C. (18 May 1867). "The Assyrian Canon Verified by the Record of a Solar Eclipse, B.C. 763". The Athenaeum (London) (2064): 660–1.
