The decade of the 1690s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
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Excavations
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Finds
* 1693 -
Alfred Jewel
The Alfred Jewel is a piece of Anglo-Saxon goldsmithing work made of enamel and quartz enclosed in gold. It was discovered in 1693, in North Petherton, Somerset, England and is now one of the most popular exhibits at the Ashmolean Museum in Ox ...
discovered at
North Petherton in
Somerset, England.
* 1697 -
Commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb
The commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb are a group of over 20 inscriptions and rock reliefs carved into the limestone rocks around the estuary of the Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River) in Lebanon, just north of Beirut.
The inscriptions include three Egyp ...
discovered in
Lebanon by
Henry Maundrell.
Events
* 1693 -
John Aubrey completes his ' in manuscript.
* 1694 - Maltese
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
Events
January–March
* January 23 (O. S. January 12, Tatiana Day, nowadays celebrated on January 25) – Moscow University is established.
* February 13 – The kingdom of Mataram on Java is divided in two, creating the ...
)
* 1692: October 31 -
Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d.
1765
Events January–March
* January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna.
* January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ru ...
)
* 1696:
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580 (t ...
, English antiquary (d.
1771
Events January– March
* January 5 – The Great Kalmyk (Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule.
* January 9 ...
)
Deaths
* 1697:
John Aubrey, English antiquary (b.
1626
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Polish-Swedish War: Battle of Wallhof in Latvia – Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, defeats a Polish army.
* January 9 – Peter Minuit sails from Texel Island for America's Ne ...
)
* 1698:
Giovanni Giustino Ciampini
Giovanni Giustino Ciampini (born Rome, 1633; died there 1698) was an ecclesiastical archaeologist.
Biography
He graduated from the University of Macerata as a student of law but soon devoted himself to archaeological interests, which an importa ...
, Italian archaeologist (b.
1633
Events
January–March
* January 20 – Galileo Galilei, having been summoned to Rome on orders of Pope Urban VIII, leaves for Florence for his journey. His carriage is halted at Ponte a Centino at the border of Tuscany, where ...
)
References
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Archaeology by decade
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