The year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations
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Explorations
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Publications
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Vivant Denon - ''Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte''; includes first publication of the
Dendera zodiac.
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Johann Jahn Johann Jahn (18 June 1750 in Tasswitz, Moravia – 16 August 1816 in Vienna) was a German orientalist.
Biography
He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of University of Olomouc, and in 1772 began his theological studies at the Premonstratensian ...
- ''Biblische Archäologie''.
Other events
* The
Rosetta Stone arrives at the
British Museum and first goes on public display.
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Georg Friedrich Grotefend
Georg Friedrich Grotefend (9 June 1775 – 15 December 1853) was a German epigraphist and philologist. He is known mostly for his contributions toward the decipherment of cuneiform.
Georg Friedrich Grotefend had a son, named Carl Ludwig Grot ...
makes the first decipherment of
cuneiform.
Births
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Juan Galindo
Juan Galindo (1802 – 30 January 1840) was an Anglo-Irish political activist and military and administrative officer under the Liberal government of the Federal Republic of Central America. He represented the government in a diplomatic mission t ...
, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the
Maya civilization (d.
1839
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre.
* January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years.
* January 9 – T ...
).
Deaths
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References
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