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The decade of the 1790s in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Explorations
Excavations
- 1796: The Roman fort, vicus, bridge abutments and associated remains of Hadrian's Wall are excavated at Chesters, in England.
- Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
Finds
- 1796: Fossilized dinosaur bones of a hand of Megalonyx Jeffersonii are excavated.
- 1799: At the town of Rosetta (Rashid), a harbor on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, French troops find the Rosetta Stone, inscribed with Greek/demotic/hieroglyphs (later translated, in 1822, by Frenchman Jean-François Champollion).
Publications
- 1797: James Hutton, a Scotsman who has been called "the Father of Geology," publishes theories describing the earth as destroying and renewing itself in a never-ending cycle.
Other events
Births
- 1790: December 23 - Jean-François Champollion (d. 1832)
- 1796: date unknown - John MacEnery, priest and early archaeologist (d. 1841)
- 1797: October 5 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)
- 1799: Karl Brullov, author of Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852)
Deaths
- 1795: date unknown - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (b. 1716).
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