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The year 1835 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

  • Henry Rawlinson begins study and decipherment from the cuneiform of the Behistun Inscription.
  • Howard Vyse first visits Egypt.

Finds

  • Mars of Todi in Todi, Italy.
  • Nike Fixing her Sandal in Athens, Greece

Publications

  • Juan Galindo's description of the Maya site of Copán.
  • John Gardner Wilkinson - Topography of Thebes, and general view of Egypt.

Births

  • 25 March - Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (died 1917).
  • 22 June - Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (d. 1910).
  • 21 July - Robert Munro, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1920).

Deaths

  • 26 July - Caspar Reuvens, founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and the world's first professor of archaeology, dies at Rotterdam (b. 1793).

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