1887 in archaeology
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The year 1887 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Explorations
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[edit] Excavations
- June–July - Carl Humann works at Hierapolis.
[edit] Finds
- A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna uncovers a cache of over 300 cuneiform tablets containing diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaohs, now commonly known as the Amarna Letters.
[edit] Publications
- William Ivison Macadam - "Notes on the Ancient Iron Industry of Scotland", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- Augustus Pitt Rivers - Excavations in Cranborne Chase, vol. 1
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[edit] Miscellaneous
- The Reverend George Brown elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
[edit] Births
- January 27 - Carl William Blegen
- Neil Merton Judd
