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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1868.

Excavations

  • Charles Warren starts first excavations of Jericho.
  • Grime's Graves in the English county of Norfolk is excavated in 1868-1870, including Gallery III2b of Greenwell's Pit.
  • The Mammen excavation, a Viking Age site near Viborg in Jutland (Denmark) is excavated.
  • At Les Eyzies, France, a cave site is excavated containing Cro-Magnon remains, at the end of La Rue du Scez overlooking Le Havre du Scez (Saie).
  • At Nymphaeum (a Greek colony in the Crimea), a burial site is excavated, with six Scythian tombs.
  • In Greece, philologist Spyridon Findiklis and his assistant Ioannis Papadakis begin the first excavations in Thebes and Plataea.
  • Alfred Biliotti starts excavations at Ialysos on Rhodes.

Finds

  • The Mesha Stele is found.
  • At Rome, the remains of the Porta Capena are found.
  • At Les Eyzies, France, alongside the Cro-Magnon remains, numerous flint tools of Aurignacian manufacture are found.
  • Hildesheim Treasure is found.
  • The first Shapwick hoard of Roman coins is found in England.

Births

  • January 3: Franz Cumont, Belgian archaeologist and historian (died 1947)
  • March 15: Albert Lythgoe, American Egyptologist, curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum (died 1934)
  • July 14: Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist (died 1926)

Deaths

  • September 10: Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (born 1788)

See also

  • Neanderthal man

References