1660s in archaeology
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The decade of the 1660s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
[edit | edit source]Excavations
[edit | edit source]Finds
[edit | edit source]- 1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have been constructed by the Emperor Constantine on the site of Saint Eustace's vision (later reconstructed as the Santuario della Mentorella).
- 1667: The Capuan bust of Hannibal is found in Capua, Italy.[1]
- 1669: One of a pair of gold sun-discs from ca. 2500–2150 BCE is found at Ballyshannon in Ireland.[2][3]
Events
[edit | edit source]- 1667: Henry Howard donates the first of the Arundel marbles to the University of Oxford (displayed in Ashmolean Museum).[4]
Births
[edit | edit source]- 1690: Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary (d. 1709)[5]
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- 1661: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (b. c.1600)
References
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- ^ Camden's Britannia. 1695 edn.
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