Explorations [ edit ]

• May - Jean-Frederic Waldeck begins a year's stay at the Maya ruins of Palenque .

Finds [ edit ]

• 15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins ( stycas ) in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham Abbey in the north of England.
• Hermes of Andros in Andros , Greece .

Publications [ edit ]

• Ippolito Rosellini , Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia begins publication.

Births [ edit ]

• 29 July - Luigi Palma di Cesnola , Italian American soldier, diplomat, archaeologist and museum director (d. 1904 )
• 1 November - Marianne Brocklehurst , English Egyptological traveller and expedition sponsor (d. 1898 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• 4 March - Jean-Francois Champollion , French decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (b. 1790 ) ^[1]
• 13 May - Georges Cuvier , French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1769 ) ^[2]

See also [ edit ]

• List of years in archaeology
• 1831 in archaeology
• 1833 in archaeology

References [ edit ]