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1620 In Archaeology
The decade of the 1620s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations * Excavations * Finds * 1621: Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus in Rome. Events * 1625: Last cannon salvaged from English ship ''Revenge'' (sank following Battle of Flores (1591)) Births * 1620: 15 February - François Charpentier, French archaeologist (d. 1702) * 1626: 12 March - John Aubrey, English antiquary (d. 1697) Deaths * 1629: Antonio Bosio Antonio Bosio (c. 1575 or 1576 – 1629) was a Maltese scholar, the first systematic explorer of subterranean Rome (the "Columbus of the Catacombs"), author of ''Roma Sotterranea'' and first urban spelunker. Life Bosio was born in Malta, ..., Italian scholar (b. 1575/1576) References {{s-end Archaeology by decade Archaeology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
The Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus or "Great" Ludovisi sarcophagus is an ancient Roman sarcophagus dating to around AD 250–260, found in 1621 in the Vigna Bernusconi, a tomb near the Porta Tiburtina. It is also known as the Via Tiburtina Sarcophagus, though other sarcophagi have been found there. It is known for its densely populated, anti- classical composition of "writhing and highly emotive"Fred S. Kleiner, ''A History of Roman Art'' (Wadsworth, 2007, 2010, enhanced ed.), p. 272. Romans and Goths, and is an example of the battle scenes favored in Roman art during the Crisis of the Third Century. Discovered in 1621 and named for its first modern owner, Ludovico Ludovisi, the sarcophagus is now displayed at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, part of the National Museum of Rome as of 1901. The sarcophagus is a late outlier in a group of about twenty-five late Roman battle sarcophagi, the others all apparently dating to 170–210, made in Rome or in some cases Athens. These derive from He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Ship Revenge (1577)
''Revenge'' was an English race-built galleon of 46 guns, built in 1577 and captured by the Spanish in 1591, sinking soon afterwards. She was the first of 13 English and Royal Navy ships to bear the name.Since she was built and served prior to the English Restoration of 1660, she did not carry the 'HMS' prefix. Construction ''Revenge'' was built at a cost of £4,000 at the Deptford Dockyard, Royal Dockyard, Deptford in 1577 by master shipwright Mathew Baker (shipwright), Mathew Baker. His race-built design was to usher in a new style of ship building that would revolutionise naval warfare for the next three hundred years. A comparatively small vessel, weighing about 400 tons, being about half the size of ''Henry Grace à Dieu'', ''Revenge'' was rated as a galleon. Armament The armament of ships of this period was fluid; guns might be added, removed or changed for different types. ''Revenge'' was particularly heavily armed during her last cruise: she carried 20 heavy demi-canno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Flores (1591)
The Battle of Flores was a naval engagement during the Brittany Campaign of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 fought off the Island of Flores between an English fleet of 22 ships under Lord Thomas HowardFernández Duro p. 80 and a Spanish fleet of 55 ships under Alonso de Bazán. Sent to the Azores to capture the annual Spanish treasure convoy, when a stronger Spanish fleet appeared off Flores, Howard ordered his ships to flee to the north,Paine p. 150 saving all of them except the galleon ''Revenge'' commanded by Admiral Sir Richard Grenville. After transferring his ill crewmen onshore back to his ship, he led the ''Revenge'' in a rearguard action against 55 Spanish ships, allowing the English fleet to retire to safety. The crew of the ''Revenge'' sank and damaged several Spanish ships during a day-and-night running battle. The ''Revenge'' was boarded many times by different Spanish ships, and repelled each attack successfully. When Admiral Sir Richard Grenville was badly wounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Charpentier
François Charpentier (15 February 1620 – 22 April 1702) was a French archaeologist and man of letters. Biography Charpentier was born in Paris, and intended for the bar, but was employed by Colbert, who had determined on the foundation of a French East India Company, to draw up an explanatory account of the project for Louis XIV. Charpentier regarded as absurd the use of Latin in monumental inscriptions, and to him was entrusted the task of supplying the paintings of Charles Le Brun in the Versailles Gallery with appropriate legends. His verses were so indifferent that they had to be replaced by others, the work of Jean Racine and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, both enemies of his. Charpentier in his ''Excellence de la langue française'' (1683) had anticipated Charles Perrault in the famous academical dispute concerning the relative merit of the ancients and moderns. He is credited with a share in the production of the magnificent series of medals that commemorate the principa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1702 In Archaeology
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines *Seventeen (American magazine), ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine *Seventeen (Japanese magazine), ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels *Seventeen (Tarkington novel), ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe *Seventeen (Serafin novel), ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film *Seventeen (1916 film), ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock *Seventeen (1940 film), ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film *Seventeen (1985 film), ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film *17 Again (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aubrey
John Aubrey (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the ''Brief Lives'', his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey holes at Stonehenge are named after him, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the holes that he observed are those that currently bear the name. He was also a pioneer folklorist, collecting together a miscellany of material on customs, traditions and beliefs under the title "Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme". He set out to compile county histories of both Wiltshire and Surrey, although both projects remained unfinished. His "Interpretation of Villare Anglicanum" (also unfinished) was the first attempt to compile a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1697 In Archaeology
The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations * Excavations * Finds * 1693 - Alfred Jewel discovered at North Petherton in Somerset, England. * 1697 - Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb discovered in Lebanon by Henry Maundrell. Events * 1693 - John Aubrey completes his ' in manuscript. * 1694 - Maltese Canon (priest), canon Ignazio di Costanzo reports in a letter that the Cippi of Melqart bear an inscription in the Phoenician alphabet. Births * 1690: February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, English antiquarian (d. 1755 in archaeology, 1755) * 1692: October 31 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765 in archaeology, 1765) * 1696: Francis Drake (antiquary), Francis Drake, English antiquary (d. 1771 in archaeology, 1771) Deaths * 1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary (b. 1626 in archaeology, 1626) * 1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, Italian archaeologist (b. 1633 in archaeology, 1633) References {{s-end Archaeology by decade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Bosio
Antonio Bosio (c. 1575 or 1576 – 1629) was a Maltese scholar, the first systematic explorer of subterranean Rome (the "Columbus of the Catacombs"), author of ''Roma Sotterranea'' and first urban spelunker. Life Bosio was born in Malta, and was sent as a boy to the care of his uncle, who was a representative at the Holy See of the Knights of Malta. He studied literature, philosophy, and jurisprudence, but at the age of eighteen he gave up his legal studies, went to Rome and for the remainder of his lifetime was devoted to archaeological work in the Roman catacombs. He died in Rome in 1629. Work The accidental discovery in 1578 of an ancient subterranean cemetery on the Via Salaria had attracted general attention in Rome. Few, however, realized the importance of the discovery, and with the exception of three foreign scholars, Alfonso Chacon, the antiquarian Philips van Winghe (1560–1592) from Leuven and Jean L'Heureux (alias Macarius),L'Heureux's notes on the catac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeology Timeline
The following entries cover events related to the study of archaeology which occurred in the listed year. __NOTOC__ 1600s - 1700s - 1800s - 1900s- 2000s 1600s 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687 1688 1689 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700s 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 17091710 1711 1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 172 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1610s In Archaeology
The decade of the 1610s in archaeology involved some significant events, some of which are described here. Finds * 1613: Remains of the Temple of Proserpina were unearthed in Mtarfa Mtarfa ( mt, L-Imtarfa) is a small town in the Northern Region of Malta, with a population of 2,572 as of March 2014. It was considered to be a suburb of Rabat until 2000, when it became a separate local council. History A number of historic s ..., Malta. Most of the marble blocks were later sculpted into decorative elements for new buildings. * 1614: Tomb of the Scipios discovered in Rome. The ''titulus'' of L. Cornelius is published in 1617 by Giacomo Sirmondo in ''Antiquae inscriptionis, qua L. Scipionis Barbati, filii expressum est elogium, explanatio.'' Births * Deaths * References {{s-end Archaeology by decade Archaeology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1630s In Archaeology
The decade of the 1630s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations * Excavations * Finds * Events * 1632: Posthumous publication of Antonio Bosio's ''Roma Sotterranea'', the results of his lifelong systematic exploration of the Roman catacombs. Births * 1633: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, Italy, Italian archeologist (d. 1698 in archaeology, 1698) * 1635: February 1 - Marquard Gude, Germany, German archaeologist (d. 1689 in archaeology, 1689). Deaths * References {{s-end Archaeology by decade 1630s in science, Archaeology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeology By Decade
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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