Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1855
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.
* January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru.
* January 23
** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...
.
Explorations
Excavations
* May -
Heath Wood barrow cemetery in England, by
Thomas Bateman.
*
Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England, by F Carroll.
Finds
* January 19 -
Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II
The sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II is a 6th-century BC sarcophagus unearthed in 1855 in the grounds of an ancient necropolis southeast of the city of Sidon, in modern-day Lebanon, that contained the body of Eshmunazar II (Phoenician language, Pho ...
in a necropolis near
Sidon.
Events
* December 14 - inaugural meeting of the
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
Publications
*
John Yonge Akerman - ''Remains of Pagan Saxondom''.
*
Churchill Babington (ed.) - ''Benefizio della Morte di Cristo'', a remarkable book of the Reformation period.
Births
* September 10 -
Robert Koldewey,
German archaeologist
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 landscap ...
(d.
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
).
Deaths
* April 15 -
William John Bankes,
English Member of Parliament, explorer and
Egyptologist (b.
1786
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The third Treaty of Hopewell is signed, between the United States and the Choctaw.
* January 6 – The outward bound East Indiaman '' Halsewell'' is wrecked on the south coast of Englan ...
).
References
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