1810 in archaeology
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The year 1810 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

  • Colosseum
    Colosseum
    The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre , is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire...

    , Rome
    Rome
    Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

    : The arena substructure is partly excavated during 1810-1814.

Publications

  • Alexander von Humboldt
    Alexander von Humboldt
    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...

     publishes illustrated accounts of Pre-Columbian
    Pre-Columbian
    The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...

     ruins of Mesoamerica
    Mesoamerica
    Mesoamerica is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and...

     including Mitla
    Mitla
    Mitla is the second most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. The site is located 44 km from the city of Oaxaca. in the upper end of the Tlacolula Valley, one of the three that form the Central Valleys Region of the...

     and Xochicalco
    Xochicalco
    Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Municipality of Miacatlán in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the house of Flowers". The site is located 38 km southwest of Cuernavaca, about 76 miles by road...

    .

Births

  • 5 April: Henry Rawlinson, English
    English people
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     Assyriologist
    Assyriology
    Assyriology is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of ancient Mesopotamia and the related cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers the Akkadian sister-cultures of Assyria and Babylonia, together with their cultural predecessor; Sumer...

     (d. 1895
    1895 in archaeology
    The year 1895 in archaeology involved some significant events.-Explorations:* Teoberto Maler makes first examinations of the Maya site of Seibal.* Eliseo Borghi begins first examinations of the Nemi ships wreck site.-Deaths:...

    ).
  • 26 July: Henry Christy
    Henry Christy
    Henry Christy was an English banker and collector who left his substantial collections to the British Museum.-Early life:...

    , English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (d. 1865
    1865 in archaeology
    The year 1865 in archaeology involved some significant events.-Publications:*John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages....

    ).

Deaths

  • 30 March: Luigi Lanzi
    Luigi Lanzi
    Luigi Lanzi was an Italian art historian and archaeologist.Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as a priest. He entered the Order of the Jesuits, resided at Rome and in 1773 was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, where he became president of the Accademia della Crusca...

    , Italian
    Italy
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     archaeologist (b. 1732).
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