The year 1814 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
*
Stamford Raffles becomes the first European to explore
Borobudur in
Central Java
Central Java ( id, Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java. Its administrative capital is Semarang. It is bordered by West Java in the west, the Indian Ocean and the Special Region of Yogyakarta in t ...
.
Excavations
*
Colosseum,
Rome: The arena substructure is partly excavated during 1810-1814.
Finds
*
Kritonios Crown is found in
Armento, Italy.
Publications
*
Births
* 23 January:
Alexander Cunningham
Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly ...
, father of the
Archaeological Survey of India (d.
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
)
* 2 September:
Ernst Curtius, conducted archaeological research in the late 19th century; primarily interested in
Greek archaeology
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
(d.
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
)
Deaths
References
See also
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Roman Forum
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- excavations.
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