1855 in archaeology
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1855.
Explorations
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Excavations
- May - Heath Wood barrow cemetery in England, by Thomas Bateman.[1]
- Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England, by F Carroll.
Finds
- January 19 - Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II in a necropolis near Sidon.[2]
Events
- December 14 - inaugural meeting of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
Publications
- John Yonge Akerman - Remains of Pagan Saxondom.
- Churchill Babington (ed.) - Benefizio della Morte di Cristo, a remarkable book of the Reformation period.
Births
- September 10 - Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (d. 1925).[3]
Deaths
- April 15 - William John Bankes, English Member of Parliament, explorer and Egyptologist (b. 1786).[4]
References
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