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The year 1800 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

  • Bretby Castle, Derbyshire, England, a 16th-century fortified manor, is partially excavated.

Births

  • August 13 - Ippolito Rosellini, Tuscan Egyptologist (d. 1843)
  • October 8 - Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (d. 1887)
  • December 24 - Ferdinand Keller, Swiss archaeologist (d. 1881)
  • Charles Masson, born James Lewis, British explorer of Buddhist sites (d. 1853)

Deaths

  • June 28 - Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, French antiquary (b. 1743)

References