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1780s . 1790s in archaeology . 1800

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Excavations

• Francis Llewellyn Griffith begins a 4-year series of excavations in Nubia.
• Edgar Lee Hewett begins a 4-year project at Quiriguá.
• Antonios Keramopoulos excavates the temple of Apollo in Thebes, Greece.
• St Piran's Oratory, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England.
• Coldrum Long Barrow in south east England.

Events

• United Fruit Company purchases land in Guatemala including the Maya site of Quiriguá; 30 acres (120,000 m²) including and around the ruins are set aside as an archaeological zone.
• The National Museums of Kenya, a governmental body maintaining several museums and monuments in Kenya (with headquarters in Nairobi), is founded by the East Africa Natural History Society.

Births

• February 13 - Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1992).
• May 3 - Anne Strachan Robertson, Scottish archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1997).
• May 28 - Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist (d. 1996).
• July 10 - Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist (d. 2007).
• August 5 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (d. 1996).

Deaths

• May 26 - Cyrus Thomas, American ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1825).
• June 22 - Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist (b. 1858).
• August 12 - Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (b. 1835).
• August 23 - Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1828).

See also

• Pompeii