1660s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1660s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

• 1661: Athanasius Kircher discovers the ruins of a church in Rome said to have been constructed by the Emperor Constantine on the site of Saint Eustace's vision (later reconstructed as the Santuario della Mentorella).
• 1667: The Capuan bust of Hannibal is found in Capua, Italy.^[1]
• 1669: One of a pair of gold sun-discs from ca. 2500–2150 BCE is found at Ballyshannon in Ireland.^[2][3]

Events

• 1667: Henry Howard donates the first of the Arundel marbles to the University of Oxford (displayed in Ashmolean Museum).^[4]

Births

• 1690: Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary (d. 1709)^[5]

Deaths

• 1661: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (b. c.1600)

References

1. Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1896). Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War. Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
2. Camden's Britannia. 1695 edn.
3. "Ballyshannon 'Sun Disc'". Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
4. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
5. "Lhuyd, Edward". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

Preceded by 1650s in archaeology

Archaeology timeline 1660s

Succeeded by 1670s in archaeology