Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1853.

Contents

• Explorations
• Finds
• Births
• Deaths
• See also
• References

Explorations

• Alexander Cunningham examines and describes the ruins at Harappa in the Punjab
• John Thurnam begins investigating tumuli around Knap Hill in Wiltshire, England

Finds

• Hormuzd Rassam excavates the clay tablets which will be deciphered as Epic of Gilgamesh
• Winter 1853–54 – Archaeologist Ferdinand Keller identifies the remains of the Meilen–Rorenhaab site, first of the prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich to be located. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Births

• June 3 – Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
• December 26 – Wilhelm Dörpfeld, German architect and archaeologist (d. 1940) ^[4]

Deaths

• June 8 – Howard Vyse, English soldier and Egyptologist (b. 1784)
• Charles Masson, British explorer of Buddhist sites (b. 1800)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1852 in archaeology
• 1854 in archaeology

References