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1832 in archaeology

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Overview of the events of 1832 in archaeology

List of years in archaeology

In science: 1829; 1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835

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Explorations

May - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck begins a year's stay at the Maya ruins of Palenque.

Finds

15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins (stycas) in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham Abbey in the north of England.
Hermes of Andros in Andros, Greece.

Publications

Ippolito Rosellini, Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia begins publication.

Births

29 July - Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (d. 1904)
1 November - Marianne Brocklehurst, English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (d. 1898)

Deaths

Jean-François Champollion

4 March - Jean-François Champollion, French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (b. 1790)
13 May - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1769)

See also

References

"BBC - History - Jean-François Champollion". BBC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
"Georges Cuvier". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2017.

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