Explorations

• Henry Rawlinson begins study and decipherment from the cuneiform of the Behistun Inscription.
• Howard Vyse first visits Egypt.

Finds

• Mars of Todi in Todi, Italy.
• Nike Fixing her Sandal in Athens, Greece

Publications

• Juan Galindo's description of the Maya site of Copán.
• John Gardner Wilkinson - Topography of Thebes, and general view of Egypt.

Births

• 25 March - Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (died 1917).
• 22 June - Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (d. 1910).
• 21 July - Robert Munro, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1920).

Deaths

• 26 July - Caspar Reuvens, founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and the world's first professor of archaeology, dies at Rotterdam (b. 1793).

References