1873 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1873.
Excavations[edit]
- January; November – George Smith sets out for excavations at Nineveh.[1]
Explorations[edit]
- Antonio García Cubas makes first scholarly description of the ruins of the Toltec capital in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico.
- José Ramos Orihuela discovers the cave paintings in the Painted cave of Galdar ("Cueva Pintada") at Gáldar, Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria.
Finds[edit]
- May 27 - German Classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" at the presumed site of Troy in Anatolia.
- The Hiddensee treasure, a hoard of pendants and other gold jewellery from the time of Viking ruler Harald Bluetooth, is found on the German island of Hiddensee in the Baltic.
- Bharhut stupa is identified in India by Alexander Cunningham.[2]
Births[edit]
- June 29 - Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist (d. 1938)
- July 28 - John Winter Crowfoot, English educational administrator and archaeologist (d. 1959)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Smith, George (1875). Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh, During 1873 to 1874.
- ^ Cunningham, Alexander (1879). The Stûpa of Bharhut: a Buddhist monument ornamented with numerous sculptures illustrative of Buddhist legend and history in the third century B.C. London: W. H. Allen.