Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1860.

• Ernest Renan visits the Roman temple of Bziza.

• Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.
• Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.
• Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.

• Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools (of a type already found in England) at Aurignac.^[1]
• Cornet De Groot rediscovers Muara Takus Buddhist temple complex in Indonesia.^[2]
• Atalante Hermes from Atalante and Hermes of Aegium from Aegium in Greece.

• Evans, John (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint Implements in undisturbed Beds of Gravel, Sand, and Clay". Archaeologia. 38 (2). London: 280–307. doi:10.1017/s0261340900001454. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
• Prestwich, Joseph (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint-implements, associated with the Remains of Animals of Extinct Species in Beds of a late Geological Period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 150. London: 277–317. doi:10.1098/rstl.1860.0018. hdl:2027/chi.098241705. S2CID 111126826.

• July 15 - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (d. 1946).
• November 8 - Francis J. Haverfield, English Romano-British archaeologist (d. 1919).

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