Publications

• Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
  Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
  Rifa'a al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual...
  
   publishes The History of Ancient Egyptians.
• Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
  Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
  Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes , sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley....
  
   publishes the first part of De La Création, Essai sur L'Origine et la Progression des Êtres.
• Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
  Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
  Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer.-Biography:...
  
   publishes the first detailed account of the Maya
  Maya civilization
  The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
  
   ruins of Uxmal
  Uxmal
  Uxmal was dominant from 875 to 900 CE. The site appears to have been the capital of a regional state in the Puuc region from 850-950 CE. The Maya dynasty expanded their dominion over their neighbors. This prominence didn't last long...
  
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Deaths

• May 19 - Sir Richard Colt Hoare, English
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
   archaeologist (b. 1758).