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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1865.

Explorations

  • The first report of a discovery of Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Romania is made by Fr. W. Schuster.

Excavations

  • Excavations at Slack Roman fort in Yorkshire (England) under the direction of George Lloyd.

Publications

  • Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam complete publication of Crania Britannica: delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British islands.
  • John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.
  • Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes.
  • Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization.

Finds

  • French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC.

Events

  • Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
  • Palestine Exploration Fund is established.

Births

  • June 22 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (d. 1945)
  • August 27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
  • Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist of Buddhism (d. 1952)

Deaths

  • May 4: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (born 1810).
  • May 21 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (born 1788).

See also

  • Ancient Egypt / Egyptology

References