Excavations

• Excavation of Nydam Mose
  Nydam Mose
  Nydam Mose is an archaeological site located at Øster Sottrup, a town located in Sundeved, eight kilometres from Sønderborg, Denmark.-History:...
  
   in Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
   under Conrad Engelhardt begins (continues to early 1864).
• Excavation of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter
  Wroxeter
  Wroxeter is a village in Shropshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Wroxeter and Uppington and is located in the Severn Valley about south-east of Shrewsbury.-History:...
  
  ) under Thomas Wright.

Publications

• J. M. García publishes an account of Monte Albán
  Monte Albán
  Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca...
  
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• Charles Roach Smith
  Charles Roach Smith
  Charles Roach Smith , FSA, was an English antiquarian and amateur archaeologist who was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the London Numismatic Society. He was a founding member of the British Archaeological Association...
  
   — Illustrations of Roman London.

Miscellaneous

• Royal Geographical Society
  Royal Geographical Society
  The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...
  
   is given a Royal Charter
  Royal Charter
  A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...
  
   by Queen Victoria

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1858 in archaeology
  1858 in archaeology
  -Explorations:* Désiré Charnay makes the first photographs of the Maya ruins of Palenque-Finds:* Discovery of stone tools in a cave at Brixham in England.* December 31 - Roman coin hoard at Weston Underwood found in Buckinghamshire, England.-References:----...
  
  
• 1860 in archaeology
  1860 in archaeology
  - Excavations:* Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.* Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.-Finds:* Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools at Aurignac.-Births:...