1863 in archaeology

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1863 in archaeology

Explorations[]

Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.^[1]

Excavations at Ephesus by John Turtle Wood begin.
William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered prehistoric settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.

Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland is published posthumously.^[2]
The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd–1st centuries BC) is first published, by Francis William Newman in London.
Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde begins publication.

April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by Charles Champoiseau. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
The Exaltation of the Flower found at Farsala in Thessaly by Léon Heuzey and Henri Daumet.
Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt.^[3]
Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.

^ Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 129. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
^ Uldum, Otto. "The Nydam Ships". NAVIS I. Retrieved 2011-09-23.