1868 in archaeology

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1868.

Excavations

• Charles Warren starts first excavations of Jericho.
• Grime's Graves in the English county of Norfolk is excavated in 1868-1870, including Gallery III2b of Greenwell's Pit.
• The Mammen excavation, a Viking Age site near Viborg in Jutland (Denmark) is excavated.
• At Les Eyzies, France, a cave site is excavated containing Cro-Magnon remains, at the end of La Rue du Scez overlooking Le Havre du Scez (Saie).
• At Nymphaeum (a Greek colony in the Crimea), a burial site is excavated, with six Scythian tombs.
• In Greece, philologist Spyridon Findiklis and his assistant Ioannis Papadakis begin the first excavations in Thebes and Plataea.
• Alfred Biliotti starts excavations at Ialysos on Rhodes.

Finds

• The Mesha Stele is found.
• At Rome, the remains of the Porta Capena are found.
• At Les Eyzies, France, alongside the Cro-Magnon remains, numerous flint tools of Aurignacian manufacture are found.
• Hildesheim Treasure is found.
• The first Shapwick hoard of Roman coins is found in England.

Births

• January 3: Franz Cumont, Belgian archaeologist and historian (died 1947)
• March 15: Albert Lythgoe, American Egyptologist, curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum (died 1934)
• July 14: Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist (died 1926)

Deaths

• September 10: Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (born 1788)

See also

• Neanderthal man