1854 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1854.
Explorations
[edit]- Giovanni Battista de Rossi discovers the Catacomb of Callixtus in Rome.
- Karl von Scherzer examines and writes a description of Quiriguá, a Maya site in Guatemala.
- Thomas Wright investigates Kit's Coty House, the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow in Kent, England.
Finds
[edit]- Coleraine Hoard in the north of Ireland.
- Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England.
Births
[edit]- August 26 - Kate Bradbury Griffith, English Egyptologist (d. 1902)
Deaths
[edit]- September 27 - Frederick Catherwood (b. 1799)